A matter of meaning: we can’t say 2025 brought radical shifts in how we conceive domestic space, but we certainly saw many houses acquire new significance over the months – whether it was the Eames House reopening after the Los Angeles wildfires, Wright-designed homes restored by Diane Keaton, or the small, pink, message-loaded “Casita” that Bad Bunny dropped into the middle of his live shows.

The market remains the toughest arena where the future of living is being negotiated: “Can we really buy houses on Amazon?” some wonder, as cities like Milan continue inflating their property values and as broader segments of the population find themselves pushed out of housing access. Meanwhile, the market saw the return – some for the first time – of numerous modern icons, opening new chapters for Bauhaus architectures, Wright’s villas, and Le Corbusier apartments, not to mention New York’s Bubble House or a Los Angeles manifesto such as the Stahl House.

Cinema, too, pushed our collective imagination forward, with expressive interiors such as Guadagnino’s for Queer and After the Hunt. And the international gatherings of an increasingly transversal design community took us into homes that hovered between provoking wonder and provoking questions: from the Venice Biennale to the Lisbon Triennale and Milan Design Week, where Villa Borsani opened – this year with an entrance fee – and the opening of Albini’s Villa Pestarini has been announced for 2026. Above all, the most relevant matter of our research is the meaning invested by the new projects selected and published by Domus this year: homes that are sensitive, sustainable, interspecies, and increasingly born from a dialogue with the city, with the landscape, with existing architectures that are seen, listened to and reactivated.

This is why, in our 2025 selection, you’ll find homes that have taken on new meaning for all of us this year, and homes that were created to continue the ongoing work of building meaning, even before building walls and doors.

Domus met with Eames Demetrios and Adrienne Luce of the Eames Foundation to rediscover how this “anti-iconic icon” of California Modern is also inspiring the future of a recovering city, in a way different from what you might expect. Read more

Over the course of four months, Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili has transformed a 15th-century Venetian house — now home to the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation — into a total artwork. The result is hauntingly powerful. Read more

Built for this summer Bad Bunny’s residency in Puerto Rico, the Casita has become a symbol of the Latin diaspora, with replicas in Miami and New York. Read more

The great actress and director, recently passed away, once reconstructed the lost interiors of a 1920s home in Los Feliz, and later lived among the midcentury lines of a 1950s residence in the Pacific Palisades. Read more 

French designer Erwan Bouroullec reflects on a renovation that serves as a manifesto for design: a quest for “degree zero,” a fresh simplicity that has emerged after the first 25 years of his career. Read more

With the two projects in the Gulf of Baratti in Tuscany – among the few he realized in his career – the Florentine architect developed the construction of his architectural vision, an original synthesis of nature and technique. Read more

Domus returns to Carbuta, in the inland hills behind the western Ligurian Riviera, where in the late 1960s the architect-painter created his home studio. A dialogue that moves beyond brutalism, between raw concrete organic forms, the shape of the landscape, and the architecture of an old olive press. Read more

Studio Kyriakos Miltiadou has designed a home as a box within a box, deconstructed from the inside out, shaped by an introverted yet layered and lived-in residential concept. Read more

It's not just salvaged traditional elements. In the renovation of a former barn in Ingolstadt, Büro Mühlbauer incorporated concrete and glass, creating an interior with brutalist echoes. Read more

Twobo Arquitectura developed a house near Girona as a system of patios and pavilions encouraging movement and relaxation as new domestic rituals, amid ceramics, exposed concrete, and terracotta screens. Read more