A house in Portugal built by subtraction
Filipe Saraiva has reinterpreted the footprint of an existing building to create a compact house which establishes a dialogue with the landscape and its history through precise volumetric cut-outs.
Reclaiming a Salento masseria through contemporary design
Near Lecce, the Margine studio has transformed the historic Masseria Caronte into a restaurant, carrying out a “subtractive” restoration that strips away later additions and restores the building’s original spatial and material clarity.
A low-impact home in the forests of New York
Fern House, designed by Holesum Studio for a couple seeking a closer connection with nature, blends seamlessly into the landscape, nestling among the trees and echoing the textures and materials of the forest.
What we know about the upcoming Malpensa Hospital: inside Zaha Hadid Architects’ vision
An unusual typological layout, a vast green area and roofs that become public squares: this is the setting for the new hospital in the Milan metropolitan area. Paolo Zilli, director at Zaha Hadid Architects, explains the project to Domus.
How to renovate a neoclassical house: Local Local and the Plaka House project in Athens
This 19th-century terraced house was renovated in the neoclassical style in the 1990s. It has now been reimagined by the Local Local studio, combining traditional building methods with a contemporary aesthetic to restore a sense of lightness and vibrancy to the spaces.
Qb Atelier has designed a house in a former industrial workshop
QB Atelier has designed a home in Veneto that occupies the spaces of a 20th-century factory and opens onto a secret garden.
Smiljan Radić Clarke wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize: architecture as an act of faith
The 2026 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to a Chilean architect whose work is far removed from spectacle and the logic of starchitects. Their creations, suspended between landscape, matter and fragility, bring a radical approach to building back to the fore.
There’s an experimental tiny house made of charred wood
The Forestone Cabin, designed by students from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), is a compact 20-square-meter dwelling created to help address wildfire risks in the forested areas of the Pyrenees.
Messner Architects’ deconstructivist extension to a house in the Dolomites
Located beneath a 1970s residential building, the extension to Casa Conte blends into the landscape, almost disappearing from view. On the outside, it reveals itself with a sinuous and dynamic façade that winds its way through the vineyards.
The Bunker House by Abez studio in Spain
The name itself denounces the concept of the house: introverted and almost completely closed to the outside world. In reality, there is much more to this ethereal space sculpted by white masonry.
Oasi Architects experiment with reuse and self-building in their own rural home
Near Milan, the studio revisits the construction techniques of traditional Lombard farmhouses in the renovation of a 20th-century courtyard house, where even the home’s everyday functioning — from heating to maintenance — becomes a shared project.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
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.
A guest house in Upstate New York, combining brutalism and Nordic design
Designed by Vipp and Johnston Marklee, the guest house combines the rigour of concrete with the peaceful atmosphere of Scandinavian interiors.
Hiroyuki Oinuma's suspended garden in Tokyo
In Nakano, one of Tokyo's 23 special wards, an elevated walkway introduces the house-studio designed by Hiroyuki Oinuma of HOAA Studio. The path continues inside the building.