In Warangal, Spacefiction Studio translates the principles of Vastu Shastra by reinterpreting the concepts of the ancient Indian discipline that seeks to establish a balance between the environment and the built space. The result is a terracotta house composed of staggered volumes, double-height spaces, and green courtyards.
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.
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.
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 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.
As part of the O14 project, the Spanish studio reinterprets the building, changing its intended use and revealing its architectural features.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
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.
Brescia’s new Main and Children’s Hospital joins a growing generation of healthcare projects that are reshaping hospitals as more than places of treatment: civic campuses, inhabitable landscapes and symbolic architectures for the contemporary city.
