Building on memory: Studio MAAC’s arena in Ouidah
Located on the Atlantic coast of Benin in West Africa, the new cultural venue aims to engage with the landscape, which has been shaped by significant historical events.
Everything you need to know about Fuorisalone 2026
Districts, exhibitions, installations and new digital platforms: the complete guide to Fuorisalone 2026, between confirmations, expansions beyond Milan and new tools to navigate the busiest design week in the world.
Radical Design was also born on the dance floor: inside Turin’s Piper Club
From Pratone to Strum to the Piper-Pluriclub, a shared cultural matrix emerges: a Turin that functioned as a laboratory where design first took shape as experience rather than object.
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SOM has designed sci-fi towers for Kazakhstan
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveils the project for a multifunctional complex set to become the defining landmark of Alatau’s “new town,” blending place branding, engineering, and a strikingly cinematic aesthetic.
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All the exhibitions to see in Venice during the 2026 Biennale
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
The designer of the iPhone has created an alarm clock to do away with the smartphone
Balmuda introduces The Clock, an alarm without a screen or hands, developed with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom, replacing notifications and displays with light and soundscapes.
The objects in Giorgio Morandi’s paintings, photographed one by one
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
Gae Aulenti’s most narrative house is for sale in Pisa: a system of thresholds, not rooms
Designed in 1973 just a short walk from Piazza dei Miracoli, this villa by Gae Aulenti is back on the market for €975,000. Organized as a sequence of parallel walls that do not divide but connect, the house functions as a system of passages: each threshold reshapes space, light, and the relationship between inside and outside.
Andrea Branzi’s design belongs to a world we can no longer imagine
At Triennale Milano, Andrea Branzi by Toyo Ito. Continuous Present does not attempt to bring the author into the present, but makes visible the distance he comes from: a time when design could be theory, critique, and the construction of imaginaries.
The eclecticism of a French apartment designed by Institut Palmyre
Between stages, backdrops and hidden recesses, an interior project in Nantes turns everyday life into a performance, oscillating between the domestic and the theatrical, the historic and the contemporary.
Beeple brings his robot dog-men meet Mies van der Rohe in Berlin
At the Neue Nationalgalerie, the satirical series Regular Animals turns Silicon Valley’s protagonists into unsettling hybrid creatures, setting them in sharp contrast with Mies’s modernist temple.
The most discreet designer of the 20th century turns 100: the exhibition in Milan
At Milan’s Castello Sforzesco, an exhibition retraces the work of Gianfranco Frattini through iconic furniture, glass pieces, and new editions produced by companies such as Cassina, Gubi, and Poltrona Frau.
Cattelan recreates the Sistine Chapel — but scaled down and inside a palace in Malta
Inside Valletta’s Grandmaster’s Palace, a scaled replica of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel becomes a reflection on authorship, power, and the narratives of art at the Malta Biennale.
“The documentary? I make it with AI”: Toledano, the photographer of the age of hallucination
At MIA Photo Fair in Milan, Phillip Toledano presents his AI-generated images and advances a radical claim: in an age where anything can be false, documentary survives only by staging the collapse of truth.
Between Kenzo Tange’s towers, a new station by Miralles Tagliabue opens in Naples
The “Centro Direzionale” underground station designed by EMBT introduces a fluid, wood-clad structure that redefines the urban “journey” and re-establishes a dialogue with the neighbourhood: it's a "stroll through the woods"
Millions of photos, Branzi and… two watches: Mauro Porcini is redesigning Samsung beyond minimalism
Defying the reigning minimalism, the new Chief Design Officer tells Domus how to restore cultural density, a plurality of forms, and the centrality of the human being to technology.
The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation’s apartment is for sale. Blame artist Nancy Lupo
In London, the artist turns the foundation’s apartment into a habitable sculpture and actually puts it on the real estate market, somewhere between fiction, desire, and urban critique.
5 overlooked architectural masterpieces for the FAI Spring days
A Brutalist bank, a mansion inspired by the color of a shirt, and other little-known architecture to visit this weekend during FAI Spring Days.
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.
Set inside a construction site, the most radical art fair of the past decade arrives in Milan
Nomadic by nature, Paris Internationale leaves the French capital and lands in Milan during Art Week and Design Week, taking over a long-hidden modernist gem now undergoing transformation.
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.
For a few hours only, you can visit a perfectly preserved air-raid bunker in Milan
The 2026 FAI Spring Days will open to the public for the first time the air-raid shelter of the Palazzo delle Agenzie delle Entrate on via Moscova, together with the vault and the “Loggia della Fortuna”.
Leandro Erlich’s sculptures in Scarpa’s Olivetti Showroom, one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the 2026 Biennale
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco hosts the fantastic and surreal works of Leandro Erlich: an exhibition project we will be hearing a lot about.
A historic Paris train station will become the largest museum dedicated to Alberto Giacometti
Opening planned for 2028 for the Musée & École Giacometti, which will transform the former Gare des Invalides into a major center devoted to the work of the sculptor.
When you empty a house, what’s really left of us?
In Calle Málaga, Maryam Touzani turns a Tangier home into a living archive of objects, memories, and identity. A film that speaks about design without ever naming it, and about what we lose when everything is reduced to square meters.
Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI plaza becomes Rome’s newest Mediterranean garden
The Maxxi is going big: a project by Bas Smets reimagines the space in front of the museum as a planted square and marks the launch of the works that will transform the surrounding area.
A recycled iMac turned into a chair and no, Jony Ive didn’t design it
Designer Lim Wootek sealed an old iMac, a Magic Keyboard and an Apple mouse into a block of resin, turning it into an unusual piece of furniture. It's a statement on the fading of memories, and it's also probably quite uncomfortable to sit on.
Tokyo has been rebuilt inside Minecraft: is this the most ambitious digital city ever built?
Based on official digital twin data, the project transforms Minecraft into an unexpected platform for understanding, simulating, and navigating contemporary urban space.
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.
A guide to the best exhibitions to visit in Italy in March
From Milan to Pistoia, Venice to Gibellina, spanning painting, photography, design, and architecture: Domus has selected the exhibitions to add to your calendar for the beginning of spring.
Hockney’s 90-metre iPad landscape: a British tapestry for the age of the museum shop
At the Serpentine North in London, "A Year in Normandy and Some Other Thoughts About Paintings" confirms how the former enfant terrible of British Pop Art has now become above all a lifestyle phenomenon.
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.