Current Issue: Domus 863

As he originally conceived it, Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Hall would have had a stone skin. Steel gives it a sense of lightness, that looks even better. Photography by Richard Bryant/Arcaid

Lina Bo Bardi, an Italian in São Paulo

The painter who told tales

The fate of the city

Archaeologists of the future

A Londoner’s view of Milan

Designing (and living with) digital culture

Portaluppi as he was

Taming the laws of gravity

How dare you not be me?

An Italian in Paris

Building in the mountains

Exhibitions, events, fairs

Competitions

Existenz Minimum

A steel sculpture

A hall for Los Angeles

Gehry’s first major building in his home town shows an architect at the height of his powers

Shopping in the city

Future Systems’ building for Selfridges in Birmingham suggests that there is still life in the department store as a type

Niemeyer restored

A long forgotten gallery in São Paulo reopens with an exhibition of British Art. Stefano Casciani reports

Chernobyl’s new tomb

Mark Irving on the latest effort to contain the continuing threat of radioactivity

Maki’s Triad

Fumihiko Maki’s new project represents an unlikely combination of art gallery and research lab

The art bridge

Melbourne’s new landmark is the product of a collaboration between art and architecture

Housing the sciences

Two university laboratories in Ireland and Australia. Texts by Leon van Schaik and Deyan Sudjic

The architecture of display

New works by Italo Rota

Inside Milan

Behind the sombre walls of a Milanese shop

The public realm

Maria Cristina Tommasini’s selection

The ubiquitous Santiago Calatrava

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