Francis Kéré: My new projects, two years after winning the Pritzker Prize
“Sustainability is continuity,” says the architect, who claims he doesn’t consider himself an intellectual and whose work is booming.
The three lives of a house in Stockholm
Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter has added a contemporary twist to a 1920s mansion already transformed in the 1970s, eclectically preserving and valorizing three ways of living.
The history of Villa Borsani and why it matters
The design of this villa in Brianza, now home to Alcova, tells many stories: family, business, and modern architecture. And it represents well the incredible contribution of its region to the history of design and the Salone.
Abstract shapes and sobriety for a kindergarten in Hungary
Archikon Architects designed a building with no concessions to softness, giving back to the city’s reformed religious community a reference point for learning and listening.
A renovated house near Antwerp combines postmodern and contemporary
B-bis architecten valorized a 1976 residence nestled in the Belgian landscape, incorporating new elements while respecting the pre-existing elements, between bricks and round windows.
The renovation of an Art Nouveau building in Barcelona
Studio BACH renovated and extended an early 20th century building while preserving its original features, in a skilful dialogue between old and new.
The Domus guide to Abu Dhabi
A journey through the capital of the Emirates, among the congested roads of downtown and the dusty streets of Mina Zayed, in the sparkling Corniche, among the cultural stages of Al Saadiyat and in the middle of the desert, in the zero-emission “new city” of Masdar.
The 10 weirdest architectures you can find in Guinness World Records
The slimmest building, the tallest vertical maze, the first building made of artificial fog: a journey around the world through record-breaking architecture.
50 architecture to know: homes around the world and in history
From the house that Wittgenstein built for his sister to those of today, a global journey through nearly a century of Domus archives in search of the homes that made history.
A house near Goa, nestled around an enclosed garden
An introverted and protective dwelling in India, designed to offer shelter from monsoons, discloses familiar and private atmospheres around a hidden courtyard.
All of us strangers and the architecture of solitude
Andrew Haig’s latest film is a reflection on relationships, set between the intimacy of domestic spaces and the desolation of the metropolis.
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 “flatiron” with a modernist trait in Mexico City
In line with a history of “stubborn” and resilient architecture, an office tower in the Mexican capital circumvents the design constraints of the site, becoming a landmark in the evolving urban fabric.
When the abstract meets the everyday: a residence in Lisbon
The House without idea by Fala Atelier in Lisbon is composed of spaces and elements that deconstruct traditional living to recompose it in an eccentric and surprising form.