Designed as a symbol of Georgia’s modernization, the cultural complex remained unused for more than a decade. Its demolition brings an end to the story of one of the country’s most controversial architectural projects and reignites the debate over what happens to landmark buildings when the political vision that created them disappears.
On the occasion of Videocittà 2026 in Rome, New York-based digital artist and coder Cao Yuxi presented Nature’s Computility. Investigating the friction and harmony between nature and technology, he shared the vision behind his latest work in a conversation with Domus.
Built in 1915 and redesigned by Arrigo Arrighetti between 1958 and 1962, Piscina Argelati was an urban beach enjoyed by generations of Milanese people. Today, a major public project aims to secure its future by keeping it accessible and transforming it into infrastructure that can operate all year round.
The Chinese architectural firm Neri&Hu has designed a new façade for one of Hong Kong’s most prominent luxury hotels. The existing building has been clad in terracotta, which contrasts with the high-tech nature of the city’s financial district.
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Nestled among the rolling hills of Italy’s Marche region, far from the country’s major logistics corridors, Franke Home Solutions’ manufacturing plant is experimenting with a production model where technology, safety and employee wellbeing are all part of the same architectural vision.
On the island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean, the new Roland Garros Airport terminal uses trade winds, natural ventilation and a bioclimatic canyon to transform the climate into a design feature.
Designed by Elias James McCalip and self-funded, Duality is sold for $45. It transforms two ordinary wired earbuds into small sculptures, restoring identity to technology designed to disappear.
Macedonia is an apartment in Madrid's Puerta del Ángel neighbourhood conceived as a theatrical sequence of interconnected rooms, where an unexpected combination of colours, materials and furniture turns every space into a new discovery.
A major Parisian retrospective reinterprets the designer’s legacy, showcasing not only his famous baroque style and prints, but also his lesser-known work. Meanwhile, Pieter Mulier is preparing the brand for a new chapter.
The makers of the celebrated hacking tool explain why their new open-source device uses physical controls, low-resolution displays and smart-home integrations to protect our attention.
The newly appointed president, Vincenzo Trione, presents the vision that will guide Triennale Milano: the creation of a cultural infrastructure and a school, with Michele De Lucchi as creative director.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright without the architect ever visiting the site, the Shavin House is the only building by him completed in Tennessee. Built in Chattanooga in 1952, the house is now looking for a new owner: the asking price is $1.6 million.
Photographer Ramak Fazel documented one of the most fertile seasons of Milanese creativity from the inside with Milan Unit. This body of work, comprising photographs, documents, notebooks and objects, is currently on display at MAXXI.
The house designed by Gab Studio on the edge of a national park evokes the colors and textures of the forest without compromising on a rigorous and clearly defined tectonic character, inspired by rationalism.
In Andrzej Żuławski’s masterpiece, the late Sam Neill played a man witnessing the dissolution of his marriage and his world. However, the true protagonist was something else entirely: the Berlin Wall. This is why the upcoming remake, starring Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner, can only ever be completely different.
Artist Lorna Bauer revisits the eight murals created by Le Corbusier in the E-1027 villa, designed by Eileen Gray, and considers how they have changed the building's history.
Seven Italian case studies reveal how every era has attempted to construct its own idea of perfection, from Renaissance geometry to company towns and new towns to the residential utopias of the late twentieth century.
From “little Balis” to the “new Berlins”, contemporary tourism transforms places into desirable copies of more famous destinations. But behind these imaginary shortcuts often lies a loss of identity.
From Heatherwick and Ando’s repurposed industrial silos to Bofill’s Fábrica, in the summer issue of Domus, the guest editor Ma Yansong explores the theme of repair as a creative act, breathing new life into memory without venerating the past.
From essays on the body and museum archives to monographs on Martino Gamper, Hella Jongerius and Roberto Burle Marx, here are 15 architecture and design books worth reading this summer.
Designed by Albera Monti Architetti, Fisherman's House sits on the slopes overlooking Lake Maggiore, opening up to sweeping views while blending modernist references, local architecture and pop-inspired interiors.
After transforming its industrial heritage, the nomadic European biennial brings contemporary art into twelve churches in the Ruhr to question the future of thousands of religious buildings destined to change function.
As part of the O14 project, the Spanish studio reinterprets the building, changing its intended use and revealing its architectural features.
Designed by Edoardo Gellner between the 1950s and 1960s, the Borca di Cadore complex was one of Italy’s most ambitious experiments of the postwar economic boom. Today, its historic hotel has reopened alongside the church created with Carlo Scarpa.
From Botticelli to Baudrillard, via Goya and Eco, beauty is not an immutable category but a constantly evolving idea that spans the history of art all the way to contemporary aesthetics.
With a new project by StorageMilano for the outdoor spaces and the Mistral restaurant, Villa Serbelloni is entering a new chapter. Domus met with the designers and hotel director Jan Bucher to explore the transformation.
Forty years after the death of Jorge Luis Borges, the labyrinth garden designed by Randoll Coate on Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore Island is reopening following a conservation project promoted by PwC Italia and Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
Fog, concrete, post-punk music and social media language. With Soviet Avellino, Pietro Pio Ciampa transforms an inland town in Campania into a shared imaginary, between brutalism, liminal spaces and contemporary visual culture.
The project, designed by Rafael Moneo and Isolarchitetti, will see Pier Luigi Nervi’s Padiglione Agnelli at Torino Esposizioni transformed into the new Biblioteca Civica Centrale, restoring a public function to this 20th century masterpiece.
In the historic center of Pietrasanta, Albergo Pietrasanta houses a contemporary art collection born from the intuition of Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, featuring works by Accardi, De Dominicis, Ontani, Bonalumi, and many others.
The Floating Piers, the installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo, lasted only sixteen days. Although it no longer physically exists, it continues to influence tourism, the perception of the landscape and the identity of the transformed territory.
The detached house, which overlooks the Danube, embraces flexibility as a design principle, with a structural grid that allows the spaces to adapt over time.
