With its new campaign for the Musei Italiani app, Italy’s Ministry of Culture tries to tell the story of the country’s museum heritage in a pop key—drawing criticism from several directions. Domus spoke with director Luca Finotti and art director Paola Manfrin.
Seventy years after Arrigo Arrighetti’s project, the Biblioteca Sormani is changing its function. It will remain a cultural center, the municipality says, but it is still unclear what kind.
From Portaluppi to Libeskind, from Muzio to Ponti, we suggest a selection of places in Lombardy to explore next weekend, which we may not yet know or have always wanted to explore (but never managed to).
Design and trends for outdoor living spaces
The Journey records 4K video, features a flip screen for vlogging, and debuts on Kickstarter: a project that leans on nostalgia and the creator economy.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
The American imagination from its earliest art to today. From Edward Hicks to Edward Hopper, from Andy Warhol to Donald Trump: America has never stopped painting itself. The problem is that the portrait has turned into a caricature.
In Reggio Emilia, an exhibition explores the relationship between photography and soundscape in Luigi Ghirri’s work: from his friendships with Lucio Dalla and CCCP to a site-specific musical intervention by Iosonouncane.
QB Atelier has designed a home in Veneto that occupies the spaces of a 20th-century factory and opens onto a secret garden.
A selection of exhibitions held by foundations, cultural institutions, and galleries – with a few out-of-town stops – to discover the unmissable events in Milan this spring, recommended by Domus.
The Chilean architect has been awarded the highest honour in the field of architecture. Here is a selection of his most important designs.
The 2026 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to a Chilean architect whose work is far removed from spectacle and the logic of starchitects. Their creations, suspended between landscape, matter and fragility, bring a radical approach to building back to the fore.
Kallsup is the latest product from the Swedish company, a portable and colorful Bluetooth speaker, but one that can be paired with other equals to create a large, powerful and widespread sound network.
Salomon’s Adaptive project develops sports prosthetics for trail running, skiing and snowboarding. Born during the Covid pandemic, it brings together aeronautical engineering, design and personal stories to make sport possible again after an amputation.
Nine concrete elements make up the Heirloom House project, a system that can be reconfigured according to needs and is designed to last for generations.
The Forestone Cabin, designed by students from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), is a compact 20-square-meter dwelling created to help address wildfire risks in the forested areas of the Pyrenees.
Unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show—exactly 60 years ago—the car designed by Marcello Gandini for Bertone introduced the mid-engine layout, radical proportions, and a new image of speed.
Development company Ion unveils the new urban district under construction in northern Istanbul, a "choral" project that brings together some of the leading names in international architecture to envision a neighborhood based on the balance between landscape, culture and society.
Districts, exhibitions, installations and new digital platforms: the complete guide to Fuorisalone 2026, between confirmations, expansions beyond Milan and new tools to navigate the busiest design week in the world.
Located beneath a 1970s residential building, the extension to Casa Conte blends into the landscape, almost disappearing from view. On the outside, it reveals itself with a sinuous and dynamic façade that winds its way through the vineyards.
In the Cappellini showroom, an installation retraces nearly forty years of collaboration between the British designer and the Italian company, from the Thinking Man’s Chair to the modular systems that have marked their longstanding design partnership.
In a neighborhood undergoing profound change, the new campus of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan, designed by Settanta7, adds another piece to the regeneration of the city’s south-eastern quadrant.
The Air Liquid Max is the latest model in the brand’s historic Air line, featuring a new sculpted and flexible Air unit with a novel aesthetic created by the empty spaces in the sole.
The new intervention by Shohei Shigematsu, Rem Koolhaas, and Cooper Robertson studio engages in dialogue with SANAA’s original 2007 building: the opening is scheduled for the second half of March.
Don’t expect touchscreens or space-age metals: the most famous piece of wood in the art market has survived centuries and the digital bubble, and has now been reimagined by the celebrated designer in a minimal, monomaterial and deeply analog aesthetic.
Spanning six centuries, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo's exhibition showcases tarot cards from the Colleoni deck, commissioned by the Sforza family in the 15th century, to works by 20th-century artists and authors such as Italo Calvino.
A newly opened facility in Malaysia welcomes young adults in burnout who want to unplug from hyper-competitive Western lifestyles. In a world where two in five young people report feeling chronically stressed, it is already fully booked.
To breathe life into this poorly lit flat, Atelier Parasie's design focuses on two key elements: maximising space and using a clever colour palette.
The film E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea recounts the birth of the iconic villa on the Côte d’Azur and the conflict with Le Corbusier, who painted murals on its walls. A visual narrative that intertwines architecture, authorship, and power in the twentieth century.
On March 21 and 22, Fai Days of Spring return: hundreds of normally inaccessible places open to the public throughout Italy. Among them, Domus has selected ten modern and contemporary buildings particularly interesting for architecture enthusiasts.
It was meant to become a new neighbourhood immediately after the 2006 Games. Instead, Turin’s Olympic Village went through years of abandonment, occupations and delayed redevelopment — a story that has become relevant again after Milano-Cortina 2026.
The project for the New Ontario Science Centre has been officially unveiled: conceived by Snøhetta and Hariri Pontarini, this science museum on the lake will complement the restoration of the Cinesphere, the inaugural permanent Imax cinema.
In the March issue, guest editor Ma Yansong explores architecture as a collective process, from Elizabeth Diller's projects to the floating platform for the Muyuna Fest in the Amazon.
The future of The Line, the visionary urban project planned within the NEOM megacity, appears to have been scaled back to be linked to the development of digital infrastructure and the AI industry.
