A coffee table with a sex tape inside becomes a sharp statement on contemporary design
Sex Tape is not the usual coffee table, but a provocative product that Batten and Kamp designed to interrogate design, its significance and its limits.
Sicily’s incredible airship hangar: it survived the wars and now lies abandoned
We rediscovered a monumental feat of engineering, built during the First World War in the countryside near Syracuse. After decades of neglect, the structure is now closed to the public for safety reasons.
Ski champion Jannik Sinner? Thanks to air, Nike turns this parallel life into design
From ACG to the Milano Jacket, we spoke with Chief Design Officer Martin Lotti about how Air is moving beyond the sole to become architecture for apparel, starting with the remarkable capsule created with the Italian tennis champion.
Are we the only ones who think these Milan Olympics feel a lot like a second Design Week?
Triennale di Milano, Casa degli Artisti, Villa Necchi Campiglio, and then pavilions in public squares: the 2026 Olympics are setting up in places that have for years symbolized the Fuorisalone. And of course, there is a huge amount of Italian design.
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Rome’s five new churches will all be built in wood
With the recently announced “New Churches Program” promoted by the Diocese and the CEI, the city will gain five new places of worship: they will be located in the outskirts and designed with sustainability in mind.
There was even a touch of italian design in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show
A simple Italian chair became a small detail that evoked the feeling of home in this weekend’s Super Bowl halftime performance. Its history, however, reaches far beyond Puerto Rico, leading back to Italian design and to Gio Ponti, founder of Domus.
Dyson built a miniature house to show how its products are really made
A 1:12 scale home, fully furnished like a real apartment, becomes the storytelling device through which the British company reveals its obsession with prototyping and engineering precision.
One of the rare circular houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is for sale
The Spring House is a landmark project that captures the evolution of the American architect’s design thinking and stands as a manifesto of the final phase of his career.
Jony Ive designed Ferrari’s first electric car as if it were an iPad
The Ferrari Luce is Maranello's first EV. Jony Ive and Marc Newson's LoveFrom shaped the cabin, with a look and feel that reminds of past Apple designs.
Emilio Ambasz’s most radical house is still a monument to introspection
In 1975, Emilio Ambasz envisioned an almost unreal villa—roofless and nearly wall-less—already anticipating sustainability. Fifty years later, the Casa de Retiro Espiritual shows how a functional dwelling can also be spiritual.
David Chipperfield’s Nobel Center finally set to be built
After more than a decade since the initial competition, Stockholm is set to welcome the new headquarters of the Nobel Foundation, a striking building designed as a tribute to the cultural identity of the Swedish capital.
Is this the beginning of the end for social media?
Active users — and above all the time spent on the platforms that have dominated the past two decades — are declining. Is AI slop and toxic content to blame, or have we simply grown tired?
How Rotterdam became a global capital of architecture, in photos
An exhibition traces the city before and after the Nazi bombing, showing how it transformed into a symbol of contemporary architecture through postwar reconstruction, experimentation, and urban innovation.
Not vintage at 80: why the Vespa is still a living symbol of italian design
Born in 1946 to help a country rebuild after the war, the Vespa went on to shape cinema, youth culture, advertising, and urban life. This is the story of an italian scooter that changed the way we move — and the way we stay close.
Haiti’s beautiful Olympic uniform is a political message
The Caribbean nation’s new uniform was hand-painted in Italy and tells the story of the country’s resistance.
Gerhard Richter’s career began with a single page from Domus
For one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, it all started with a photograph of a modernist table seen in the pages of Domus magazine.
Domus 1109 hits the shelves
From Sou Fujimoto’s wooden Grand Ring to a community building on a volcano in Ecuador, in the February issue of Domus nature takes on the role of a constructive principle in design.
A former brutalist textile workshop becomes a house-studio in Athens
In the Koukaki district, the basement of a traditional 1970s apartment building is transformed into a residence by Alexandros Gerousis, where exposed steel, glass, and reinforced concrete express a pursuit of neo-modernism.
We went to David Lynch’s exhibition in Berlin and it feels like his home
At Pace Gallery, artworks and objects turn the exhibition space into a domestic interior: the place where his world truly took shape.
You’ll soon be hearing about this highway: it could change Africa forever
A highway corridor over a thousand kilometers long will connect some of the largest cities in West Africa and promises to transform economies, territories, and borders.
What the best EU Mies Awards projects tell us about how to practice architecture today
The seven projects still competing for the award outline an idea of architecture that avoids spectacle and star names, focusing instead on relationships – with existing buildings and with the communities around them.
A canal, a new city: ZHA transforms Hangzhou’s water into a cultural district
In Hangzhou, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, a green corridor will follow the course of a waterway and host striking new buildings, including a large library.
The most beautiful arena of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics is fake
@gaude.ai imagines the Duomo of Milan transformed into an arena for ice sports and Torre Velasca turned into a high-altitude ski slope.
His Instagram profile reveals something about how architectural criticism is changing — and about the Olympics that await us.
A museum just opened in Rotterdam with millions of photographs and it shows you how they survive
At the Nederlands Fotomuseum, archives, conservation labs and even a public darkroom turn visitors from spectators into participants.
10 design gifts for Valentine’s Day you can buy on Amazon
The Valentine’s Day gift guide: design objects for him, for her, for couples and for yourself, all easily available to buy online.
For Ma Yansong, architecture must “feel nature”
In the February issue of Domus, the 2026 guest editor brings together projects in which sustainability is not just an abstract reference, but a truly lived experience.
Inside a Zaha Hadid tower in Hong Kong, Studio Paolo Ferrari has designed a bar with futuristic influences
Located inside ZHA's iconic “The Henderson” tower, the lounge bar offers a convivial experience that transforms into a surreal journey between memory and imagination.
Alcova’s two locations for Milan Design Week 2026 are (almost) unseen
A Franco Albini villa in Milan that no one has ever seen and the complex of the Baggio Military Hospital, with two newly accessible spaces: the places that Milan’s most renowned platform dedicated to collectible design will occupy for its eleventh edition.
How Moleskine transformed a psychiatric hospital into a design object
A notebook, a pill and a series of pocket journals draw inspiration from the beds of Shanghai’s most iconic mental health institution.
In Resident Evil, the scariest thing has always been architecture
We previewed Resident Evil Requiem and spoke with the development team: bent corridors, darkness and blind spots are the real weapons of fear.
The exhibitions not to miss during Milano Cortina 2026: sport becomes art, design, and storytelling
A selection of exhibitions dedicated to winter sports and their imagery, from the Olympics of the past to the languages of the present, running alongside the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games with a narrative that spans several cities, from Milan to Trento, passing through Cortina and Venice.
Renewing Modernism: Architecturestudio’s design for the ESSEC campus
The Paris-based practice tells Domus about its expansion project for the ESSEC Business School campus, where bioclimatic façades and new pedagogical models come together in a design that ultimately aims to project long-term vision.