An esoteric-yet-familiar-looking portable controller
Its name is Psistick and it’s the concept of a portable video game controller that seems to come from a parallel universe – or Half-Life.
Tobia Scarpa: gently studying the secret bond between things
Meet an uncommon architect and designer: something of a poet who descends inwards to discover “us”.
Rediscovery of textile diva Gegia Bronzini
An internationally renowned designer and craftswoman already in the 1930s, she combined the ancient technique of tapestries with the forms of Bauhaus, corn yarns with silk and linen.
The new Le Monde HQ: an unconvincing blob-like building by Snøhetta
The new Le Monde Headquarters is an architecture of a relatively outdated grandeur, a glass sculpture which fails to become iconic. An optical disillusion.
How tracking technology is redesigning healthcare
From supply chain to patient journey to data-driven hospital design, the pandemic showed us that track and trace has become increasingly relevant to healthcare. The interview.
Patricia Viel, from boats to architecture: “A long duration is a guarantee of mutual wisdom”
Love of the sea, the rigorous approach taught by nautical design, but also redundancy as a primary requirement in urban regeneration. A wide-ranging interview with the Milanese architect.
An apartment for bibliophiles
The project by the architecture studio Atomaa turns the tables on a classic Milanese apartment, introducing partitions that re-equalize the living areas and using arches and color to revive liveliness and movement.
From concrete to urban green: a metamorphosis taking place in Paris, Shanghai and more cities
The radical solution that more and more cities are proposing for traffic calming is to turn entire infrastructures into new urban parks.
Food delivery electric bike by Cake and Dometic
The Swedish manufacturer is launching a special version of Ösa, “the world's most utilitarian bike”, fitted with a special thermal and fully-connected delivery box designed by Dometic.
Cino Zucchi
Can we imagine Milan as an indie city?
Zucchi reads the contemporary metropolis as the space for our multi-mode and multi-scale existence, but also as a cultural landscape shaped by the unwritten rules of a shared etiquette.
The primitive light of Ensamble Studio
This salvage project in a former quarry saw light and stone carvings as an opportunity to rethink the dwelling in minimal terms.
Cinema Nervi, a video art project to recount the works of a great Italian engineer
The debut of the project on Pier Luigi Nervi's buildings, created in collaboration with Parasite 2.0. On Domus we feature the video by Lucia Tahan, who recreates the structure of the Palazzo del Lavoro in Turin through an Instagram filter.
Cancelling London, Butturini’s book accused of racism
Published at the end of the 1960s and loved by Martin Parr, the radical work of the Italian “against” photographer, in the middle of the BLM the book triggers great controversy for a juxtaposition between the photos of a monkey and an Afro-British ticket-taker’s one.
Ceramic becomes alive in Stefania Vazzoler’s vases
Stefania Vazzoler has created for her brand, Laesse, a collection of handcrafted water-glazed terracotta vases designed by hand in her farmhouse in Oderzo, Italy.
Those who left us in 2020
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
In Porto a former warehouse converted into software office
Metal accents and wooden elements: Pablo Pita Arquitectos designed Moxy Headquarters, adding new volumes and material dialogues to a disused hangar.
Gianni Pettena’s radical architecture on show in Brussels
The rebel genius of Gianni Pettena appears in Belgium for the first time, in a solo show developed in a double venue showing his most radical works.