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European-style hybrid venues, metal counters, and a return to the classic Italian bar: Milan’s latest openings sketch a sharp portrait of a city that has changed radically over the past year—right on the eve of Design Week.
Small, stabilised, always ready: with Osmo Pocket 4, DJI updates a device that has gradually become an implicit standard for video production, across the creator economy, social platforms, and fast, frictionless workflows.
From the transformation of a modernist exhibition hall in Charleroi to temporary spaces for Slovenia’s national theatre, the EUmies Awards 2026 winners point to a clear direction for contemporary architecture.
In Milan, within the regenerated spaces of BiM, Gianni Pettena reactivates Paper and reasserts a radical stance: architecture is not something you design – it is something you build, and above all, something you live.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
An insider’s guide to Milan Design Week 2026: what’s actually changing across new geographies, strategic returns, standout brands, and a Salone that has chosen to consolidate and redefine its role.
Following the February announcement, the space dedicated to Gio Ponti within ADI Design Museum enters its operational phase: a permanent public space that moves beyond a purely celebratory approach, expected to open by the end of 2026.
During miart on 18 and 19 April, the Fondazione Fiera Milano will open its contemporary art collection to the public. Guided tours will be held inside the historic Milanese Palazzina degli Orafi building, revealing a body of works that is usually inaccessible.
From ephemeral restaurants to station kiosks, pop-ups are turning retail into a flexible, intermittent system. But this increasingly widespread logic is also reshaping how cities are built, experienced, and remembered.
Designed for camping and outdoor life, the brand's new products are designed to be easy to use, intuitive, safe and truly inclusive, adapting to different needs and bodies.
In collaboration with Lehni, Rimowa unveils at the Fuorisalone two aluminum furniture pieces designed to finally give its suitcases a place in the home, transforming them from objects in transit into items worthy of display.
The fair at Rho — the heart of Milan Design Week — remains a perfect machine. But between a city taking center stage and new sections, its balance is shifting.
On Old Bond Street, Ferrari redefines the idea of a flagship as a cultural device: a layered environment where architecture, display, and brand identity converge. Through interviews with Rocco Iannone, Formafantasma and Gonzalez Haase, the project emerges less as a store than as a staged Officina of design.
In Whittier, Alaska, almost the entire population lives in the same building: an extreme case that makes the modern idea of the self-sufficient building concrete — and problematic — from Le Corbusier's Immeuble-villa to its contemporary developments.
From Prada to Louis Vuitton, and from Issey Miyake to Jil Sander: through temporary libraries, archives, and immersive installations, fashion brands — from Hermès to Nike — are no longer supporting design, but reshaping its languages, spaces, and audiences.
With Shape of Dreams, Spike Jonze, the director of Her, creates a new film for On, the Swiss sportswear brand, with Zendaya, once again transforming brand storytelling through body, choreography, and imagination.
At Schiphol, People’s Clock is a new permanent installation by Maarten Baas: a functioning clock built through the collective choreography of a thousand people, turning time into a visible process.
Every April, the well-known event brings attention back to a valley that—between cultural institutions, modernist architecture, and a desert landscape—has much to offer regardless of the concerts.
In Trento, the exhibition “Hit List 80. Design, interface, colour” revisits the 1980s through Memphis and a local scene where design, architecture, and image converge—revealing how our contemporary understanding of objects took shape.
From sensory memory to material reconstruction, Memo. Souvenirs du futur stages a form of design that moves between loss and repair, turning the climate crisis into a field of action.
It’s not artificial intelligence that’s the problem, but the logic already shaping music, fashion, and images: from Spotify to Margiela, today’s most compelling artists are those who derail the algorithm—even when they use it.
From the Gaudí Year and the unveiling of the Sagrada Família’s tallest tower to more than 1,500 events across the city, Barcelona becomes the World Capital of Architecture 2026 with a programme that unfolds month by month across public space, sustainability, and experimentation.
With the Karst Finch model, developed alongside Satoshi Kondo, the collaboration between Camper and Issey Miyake continues to push forward a vision of footwear increasingly rooted in movement, use, and a design culture that goes beyond fashion.
The historic space at 860 Broadway, where Andy Warhol worked between 1974 and 1984, changes function again: from art workshop to store for the Japanese brand, in a transformation that seems to exaggerate his idea of art and consumption.
From Andrés Jaque’s transspecies installations to Balkrishna Doshi’s sensory pavilion at the Vitra Campus, and on to a museum-temple in Vietnam, in its April issue Domus positions the body as the new frontier of contemporary architecture.
In one of Britain's best-known "new towns", which were designed in the mid-20th century to make London more liveable, Pyramid House has been renovated and adapted for contemporary use.
After a memoir, a no-makeup phase, and a return to acting, the reinvented diva adds a romantic furniture collection inspired by family memories to her rebranding.
At Collect art fair in London, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry highlight how craftsmanship is emerging as a conscious alternative to accelerated production and instant culture.
Kengo Kuma is the winner of the international competition to design the expansion of London's iconic museum, which is preparing to redefine its cultural role in the future.
A guide to understanding how design week actually works—from the fair to the districts, and the curatorial platforms that have reshaped the city’s map.
Compact, lightweight and designed to be carried anywhere, Dyson’s new fan miniaturises cooling without sacrificing power or battery life.
In Oulu, European Capital of Culture 2026, the Danish artist builds a digital ecosystem among Finnish folklore, seed banks and underground architecture.
For Design Week, RH transforms one of the most invisible buildings on Corso Venezia into a design gallery: a building that everyone recognizes, even without knowing it.
