Domus 1113 hits the shelves
From the projects of Oma, Snøhetta and Mvrdv to Heneghan Peng's Giza, in the June issue of Domus architecture is not an aesthetic decoration, but a moral infrastructure that has “the courage to show up”
It looks like it was hit by a meteorite, but it is an MVRDV housing complex
In Bordeaux, La Vallée Verte turns the inner courtyard of a housing block into a planted crater: an artificial valley that brings light, biodiversity and spectacle into collective living.
The Obama Center is changing what a presidential library can be
More than a presidential library, a civic campus on Chicago’s South Side. Interweaving a museum, auditorium, sports facilities, gardens and public spaces, the Obama Presidential Center aims to transform political memory into a place of participation and encounter.
The Nuvolari is not just a supercar: it is the future of Audi design
With a top speed of 350 km/h and 1,001 hp, the limited-edition model serves as a manifesto for Audi’s next generation of cars, introducing a design language that is more futuristic, restrained and technology-driven.
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In Milan, P2A Design has redesigned a 100-square-metre flat, starting with the hallway
In the Gerusalemme neighbourhood, an apartment has been transformed by removing unnecessary partitions and creating a more fluid and functional layout, with colour, graphic design and bespoke furnishings playing a key role.
A cloud dissolves Tadao Ando’s architecture at the Bourse de Commerce
Created for the exhibition “Clair-obscur”, Fujiko Nakaya’s new fog sculpture envelops the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, redefining the boundaries of architecture through an artificial cloud of water vapour.
Not a hospital but a home: the project welcoming children undergoing treatment in Lisbon
With the renovation and extension of a facility that accommodates children undergoing cancer therapy, ALA.rquitectos explores the most vulnerable aspects of living, transforming a care setting into a place of comfort and belonging.
In architecture, the material of the future could be the oldest of all
From robotics to sustainability, with a focus on durability: how stone has returned to the forefront of contemporary design, amidst new opportunities and unresolved issues.
Casetify partners with Tamagotchi on a new retro accessories collection
Smartphone cases, travel gear, and a special edition Tamagotchi are part of a capsule that revives the 90s digital aesthetic, marketed at nostalgic millennials and gen-zers alike.
After Gio Ponti, Rai’s Milan headquarters is reborn at the foot of CityLife
Designed by Lombardini22 within the Mi.Co Nord district of FieramilanoCity, the new Rai Production Centre will bring together offices, television and radio studios in an infrastructure conceived to open a historically enclosed area back up to the city.
“Restrictions are beautiful”: LANZA Atelier on designing the Serpentine’s first brick Pavilion
Just installed in the garden of the Serpentine Gallery, the new Pavilion is explained by its designers Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo: a device for observing the site, understanding how things are built, and rediscovering architecture as an elemental experience.
Fifteen years later, Safdie completes Crystal Bridges, his masterpiece museum in the woods
The architect behind Habitat 67 and Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands returns to the Arkansas museum he designed in 2011, adding more than 10,000 square metres of galleries and public spaces while preserving its original relationship with the Ozark landscape.
For Ma Yansong, those who distrust beauty are looking at architecture in the wrong way
In the editorial of the June issue of Domus, Ma Yansong questions the bias against viral architecture: online dissemination and photographic filters do not compromise the truth of the built environment, but celebrate its aesthetic diversity by bringing it closer to everydaylife.
Who is Vincenzo Trione, the new president of Triennale Milano after the Boeri era
After Stefano Boeri’s eight-year presidency, Triennale Milano opens a new phase with Vincenzo Trione at the helm, Maria Porro as vice president, and a renewed CDA. Carla Morogallo is confirmed as Director General.
Torino had its own “vertical forest” before Milano made it famous
Before the Bosco Verticale became the global icon of green architecture, Luciano Pia was designing 25 Verde in Torino – a condominium where trees, soil, terraces, and microclimate are not mere decoration, but an integral part of the building itself. It now opens for Open House Torino 2026.
Sony’s mini fan is the coolest gadget of the summer, literally
Reon Pocket Pro is a wearable personal air conditioner that sits behind the neck and uses sensors and AI to adjust cooling to environmental conditions.
Edgar Morin for Domus: “The city must be a loving institution”
In 2022, the great thinker of complexity, who has left us at the age of 104, shared with Domus his vision of the interdependent relationship between city and countryside, one that could regain balance through solidarity and responsibility.
Not a tower, but a pyramid: OMA creates a symbol for Hangzhou, China’s new tech capital
With Prism, its first completed project in the Chinese city, OMA brings together hotel, residential lofts, offices and public spaces in a pyramidal volume conceived as a vertical village for Hangzhou’s emerging tech economy.
The best exhibitions to see this summer are just a stone’s throw from the sea
A trip to the coast can also be an opportunity to explore the world of contemporary art. Here are ten unmissable exhibitions along the Mediterranean coast, from Gibellina and Stromboli to the Balearic Islands, Provence and the EMST in Athens.
Designing with shadow: how Pratic turned an industrial complex into a work of land art
Pratic’s headquarters in Fagagna, designed by Geza, uses shadow, landscape and the unfinished to transform an industrial complex into an architecture that engages in dialogue with its surroundings.
From Anish Kapoor to Louise Bourgeois, artists explore anxiety through architecture
What happens when the spaces that are meant to orient, protect and shelter us stop doing so? In contemporary art, architecture has become a privileged site for giving shape to anxiety, transforming houses, interiors and built environments into mirrors of the vulnerabilities of the present.
Why the most surprising room at Casa Decor 2026 was a bathroom
Set within the spaces of a former convent in Madrid, the award-winning Casa Decor project by Isabel López Vilalta for Kaldewei blends architecture with materials and sound to bring a brand-new daily ritual of self-care to life.
Europe’s tallest skyscraper doesn’t exist yet, but half of the apartments are already reserved
With its 230 metres and 64 storeys, TM Tower in Benidorm is set to become Europe’s tallest residential skyscraper. Although it will not be completed until 2028, it could also become one of the fastest-selling towers on the continent long before construction is finished.
TikTok calls it “the church from Shrek.” Architecture calls it a masterpiece
TikTok rediscovers Copenhagen's Grundtvigs Kirke, a monument of Brick Expressionism built over nearly two decades by three generations of the same family of architects.
It looks like an alien ruin, but it’s actually a cultural centre in the Mongolian steppe
In the Ulanqab grassland, in Inner Mongolia, BUZZ | Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed Prairie Ark and Nomads’ Beacon Tower: two architectures somewhere between ruin, UFO and landscape, designed to change with time and water.
Jasper Johns’ American flags changed contemporary art. This exhibition tells the whole story
From his famous American flags to his dialogues with Duchamp, Picasso, and Beckett, the exhibition “Jasper Johns: Night Driver” at the Guggenheim in Bilbao traces the more than seventy-year career of one of the most influential and enigmatic artists of the 20th century.
Andrea Pazienza, the comic artist who carpeted Italy’s lost generation
Through Pentothal, Zanardi, Frigidaire and the spirit of Italy’s 1977 Movement, Andrea Pazienza captured the country’s shift from collective utopias to the disillusionment of the 1980s. Today, RaiPlay and MAXXI are bringing renewed attention to the artist who transformed Italian comics and visual culture.
A card game has transformed Le Corbusier’s Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau
At Bologna’s Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, artist Daniele Catalli turns Le Corbusier’s urban utopias into dreamlike cities using Dixit cards as a tool for collective imagination.
Is Yashica’s keychain-camera the next object of desire for photography lovers?
Following the success of Kodak Charmera, Yashica enters the mini toy camera trend. Small, lightweight and intentionally imperfect, these objects are turning photography into a spontaneous experience.
Stone remembers. The restoration of Villa Priuli-Crisanti: a blend of memory, landscape and Venetian identity
The restoration of Ca' Priuli in Vicenza demonstrates how the demands of modern living can coexist with history. This ethical project, initiated by Andrea Crisanti, sees the restoration become an integral part of the landscape.
We have been living in the horror of the backrooms for decades
From the labyrinth of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining to the impossible office spaces of Severance, the new film Backrooms shows how contemporary horror is turning architecture, design and workplaces into the true sites of fear.
A collective is using art to restore dignity to abandoned architecture. An upcoming exhibition explores their work
A photographic exhibition showcases Nude, an artistic and political project that works within the layers of marginal and forgotten architecture.