Magazzino Italian Art expands with a new building by Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo
The second pavilion reflects the linear architectural structure of the head building. It will be used for exhibitions, events and educational programs.
The stage of everyday life: rediscovering Salvati and Tresoldi’s architecture
Fifty years after his first appearances on Domus, we meet Alberto Salvati, who reveals many unpublished or little-known sides of his work with Ambrogio Tresoldi, whose use of colour, but not only, is one of his main elements.
A house on the hills of Ivrea is a concrete fortress
For Studio Archisbang, the thickening of an existing building due to its external insulation coating is the occasion for a reflection on the architectural languages and masses.
Ciclostile Architettura redesigns a rural house following permaculture principles
The demolition and reconstruction of a farmer’s old house is an opportunity for the Bolognese studio to reinterpret countryside architecture in a contemporary way.
18 architectural competitions to do in quarantine
From a wine-culture center in China to the Canadian LGBTQ2 national monument, we present a selection of the next call for entries to apply for now until February 2021, for students and architects.
The Lloyds’ complex and the paradoxes of the technique
Through the decades, Domus published the most relevant projects built by the Italian design master; and they are all houses, be their inhabitant a single family or a whole city.
A narrow vertical house on seven levels in Paris
Ajile Architechts responds to the challenge of Parisian housing density through a building that optimizes the articulation of volumes and functions in the overlapping of several micro-storeys, 4.8 meters wide for a total surface of 204 sqm.
The history of the dome, from the Pantheon to Abu Dhabi’s Louvre
Let’s retrace the history of one of the greatest symbolic and constructive expressions of architecture through old and contemporary examples, from Islamic domes to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes.
Pierluigi Nicolin
Socially distanced architecture could lead to dangerous results
In his new book Architettura in Quarantena, Lotus magazine’s director reflects on the spontaneous transformation underwent by urban spaces during this pandemic.
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“Every act of construction is in defiance of nature”. An interview with Emilio Ambasz
On the occasion of the establishment of the Ambasz Insitute at the MoMA, we interviewed the precursor of green architecture: nine questions, nine answers, and some digressions on our relationship with nature.
A port warehouse in Antwerp is now an architecture studio
Binst Architects redevelops a former warehouse in the port of Antwerp to house its new headquarters. The project represents the multiple souls of the firm.
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Yugoslavia 1945–1991: a heritage to be rediscovered
“Architecture. Sculpture. Remembrance” is a research that became a book and an itinerant exhibition, now available online. We interviewed curator Boštjan Bugarič, discussing why the heritage of SFRY carries a lesson for today.
Pink stones and tiles to renovate a 20th century residential building
rar.studio renews Manchester Building, a 10-apartment structure located in the Anjos district in Lisbon, redefining facade and stairwell in respect of the original and providing more functional spaces.
The home-studio of a pianist and a designer in Japan
The volume designed by Case-Real in Kanagawa bends gently to accommodate a large mulberry tree and to generate a formal and functional division of the spaces of the house.
Sustainability and ornament: a house in Italy is clad in 3D pantographed cork
The Casa Quattro by LCA architetti in Magnano is a successful experiment on the topic of energy efficiency and its diverse possible aesthetics.
A book to learn how to retake the city, starting with our eyes
In Giorni come stanze journalist and curator Emilia Giorgi reads the places we inhabit as if they were extensions of our bodies.