Opened in 1964 after eight years of construction, the Autostrada del Sole is the infrastructure that defined postwar Italy, becoming the country's first motorway to connect Milan and Naples. A monument to the economic boom, mass tourism and the automobile, the A1 is also something more: a journey through some of the most significant works of architecture in Italian history.
At Spazio Neue, in Milan, Matteo Vettorello presents two mechanical sculptures that can only be activated through the coordinated breathing of multiple people. A project that transforms participation into a reflection on the relationship between body, technology and urban space.
The entrepreneur who helped turn Italian manufacturing into a global benchmark, together with his family, shaped the story of Poliform, from its founding in 1970 to the Compasso d'Oro Career Award and its emergence as an international design brand.
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Designed by Jorgelina Tortorici & Asociados, the house is organised around patios and a garden. An ingenious system of vertical screens alternates between providing openness and privacy.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
From the homes of artists, architects and great collectors to apartments left almost intact, eleven Italian house museums where works, furnishings and architecture still tell the story of the way of life of those who inhabited them.
In Odense, the new Dymak headquarters combine offices, a showroom and a green courtyard within a circular building. The undulating roof serves as an architectural gesture, a solar device and a corporate statement.
In 1908, Antoni Gaudí envisioned the Hotel Attraction for Lower Manhattan—a colossal vertical hotel that was never built and was later all but forgotten. On the centennial of his death, artist Thierry Lechanteur brings it back to life with an AI-generated reconstruction.
Designed by Chihiro Ishii Architects, this house is set within the strict confines of the plot. An internal ascending route expands the space and multiplies the perspectives, drawing the eye from the domestic landscape towards the urban horizon.
The passing of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, the face behind the satirical account @JerryGogosian, reopens a question about the potential of digital criticism: when does a meme stop being mere entertainment and become a tool capable of impacting reality?
Russian rooftoppers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov climbed the spire of the Empire State Building without authorization and were later arrested. But their marriage proposal suspended above Manhattan has reignited one of the city's most powerful images: New York as a vertical myth, a space of risk, desire, and imagination.
In the video for Going Shopping, The Strokes chose Santiago Calatrava’s Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín as their set, an iconic piece of architecture that takes centre stage in the band’s comeback.
From Amsterdam to Montevideo, from queer festivals to traditional carnivals, photographer Darren Smith spent seven years travelling across three continents to document temporary communities that resist the homogenisation of identity.
In the heart of North Dakota’s Badlands, Snøhetta’s Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens on July 4. Rather than simply sitting within the landscape, the library interprets it as its primary architectural and educational medium.
In the newly renovated flagship store in the Swedish capital, H&M entrusts part of its identity to the Italian studio 6:AM, which transforms columns into sculptural elements inspired by Roman pilasters and Murano glass.
The Dutch firm is behind the redevelopment of Turin’s Gallery of Modern Art, a project that revives the radical spirit of the 1959 building and opens the museum up to the city. It also makes the storage areas and collections accessible to visitors thanks to the open storage model.
Beneath Piazza Missori survives the crypt of San Giovanni in Conca, one of Milan’s oldest basilicas, while the rest of the structure is now scattered across the Castello Sforzesco, Brera, Via Francesco Sforza, and Busto Arsizio.
In 1972, Alberto Galardi and Silvano Zorzi designed a gravity-defying building in Florence, using a series of concrete tie rods to eliminate the need for columns. Ettore Sottsass designed the interiors.
From drinking hot water instead of coffee to Labubu keychains, via skincare, feng shui, and traditional medicine: the Chinamaxxing phenomenon shows how Chinese culture is becoming one of the most desired imaginaries for Gen Z.
Developed together with Bandai, Apple Pippin was not meant to be just a console, but a multimedia platform for home entertainment. Its ambitions were huge, but the market turned it into one of the biggest flops in Cupertino’s history.
At the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, a major exhibition celebrates the creative partnership between Aino and Alvar Aalto through January 2027. Featuring over 300 objects, the exhibition recounts an equal collaboration that changed the history of design forever.
The project by Boeri Studio brings a new hospital complex to the heart of the city, consisting of three volumes, high clinical efficiency, urban functions, commercial spaces, and a large green roof designed as a therapeutic device and a new urban square.
The brand's new global campaign champions analog photography over screens, chatbots, and data centers, turning nostalgia for instant cameras into a playful critique of AI culture.
In the first edition of Terraforma Radical School, fifteen participants lived at Villa Arconati for four days, moving between field recording, landscape, and sound. An experiment to understand if a garden, a labyrinth, or even silence can become sound architecture.
In Aarhus, James Turrell’s hundredth skyspace is a 40-meter-diameter dome where natural and artificial light transform the sky into pure perception.
Eight apartments are for sale in the Building Canebière, built in 1952 by one of the great architects of the French reconstruction, who is being rediscovered today after decades of relative obscurity.
Designed by Diego Cano-Lasso, the house revisits the legacy of the Case Study Houses through natural materials, self-built elements and creative reuse, turning modernist lightness into a richer, more tactile architectural experience.
Designed by The Local Crew, the structure is suspended on eight pillars and preserves the continuity of the land while establishing a direct connection with the landscape without blending into it.
Designed for professional creators and filmmakers, Luna Ultra brings Leica's design philosophy into the world of gimbal cameras for the first time, marking the company's entry into the creator economy.
The studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hereditary, The Lighthouse, and its latest hit Backrooms has partnered with Google to develop AI tools for filmmaking, reigniting the debate over artificial intelligence and creative authorship.
Charms, bows, glitter, and tiny useless objects are everywhere. Yet, behind the whimsy trend lies a much older issue: the return of ornament and the re-evaluation of everything that escapes the logic of function.
From the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome to the Splendido in Portofino, the 2026 Prix Versailles selects sixteen projects that demonstrate how luxury hospitality is becoming a total experience: imaginary homes, scenic retreats, restored palaces, and habitable landscapes.
The Swiss upcycling brand reinvents one of summer's most overlooked accessories with a cooler bag made from reclaimed truck tarpaulins and other recycled materials.
