Originally conceived as a denunciation of the violence inflicted on Native American populations, Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona ended up transforming an imagined California into one of the most recognizable architectural landscapes in the United States.
From Tashkent and the Aral Sea to Milan and Venice, the Central Asian nation is investing in Soviet modernist heritage, contemporary craftsmanship, emerging creatives, and major cultural infrastructure to redefine its place in the world.
From Vitra’s Tip Ton chair to the London 2012 Olympic torch, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have designed some of the most recognizable objects in contemporary design. Now, after thirty years of collaboration, they are closing their studio
On the hills of Cavoretto in Turin, the villa designed in 1954 by Enzo Venturelli transforms the sculptor’s plastic imagination into an architecture of slanted planes, triangular cuts and Futurist tension.
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From Philippe Malouin to Alberto Meda, the 29th edition of the ADI Compasso d’Oro highlighted projects that expand design beyond products, toward social impact, research, and cultural responsibility.
The historic 19th-century residence overlooking Lake Maggiore hosts “Alessandro Mendini. Objects. Rooms as worlds”, a major retrospective tracing the designer’s career through 130 works arranged like domestic interiors.
Yes, in Amsterdam. With meticulous craftsmanship, Plnlstudio’s adaptive reuse project transforms the unused space of a former wastewater treatment plant into a functional and cozy contemporary apartment.
For Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign, Iittala will collaborate with Hydro to create a seven-meter-high pavilion that reproduces Alvar Aalto’s celebrated Savoy vase, transforming it into a walkthrough architecture made of recyclable aluminum.
A historic nineteenth-century illusionist attraction becomes the key to reading World Models: the synthetic environments through which AI and robots learn to see, predict, and simulate reality even before it happens.
Designed by Arii Irie Architects, the Villa in Saitama overcomes the spatial constraints of its plot by rotating it by 45 degrees. This restores unobstructed views and access to natural light, as well as providing visual independence from the surrounding buildings' dense, grid-like layout.
Forbidden apples, sacred pomegranates, and Dionysian grapes: from Tintoretto to Caravaggio, fruit in art has never been mere still life, but rather desire, eros, fleetingness, and a promise of eternity.
In Manila, along the Pasig River, the new art center designed by Kulapat Yantrasast for Ayala Foundation renounces a permanent collection and imagines itself as an open forest: a civic infrastructure made of light, natural ventilation, and continuously evolving programs.
In Cusano Milanino, Villa Nava — designed in the 1970s by architect Francesco Castiglioni — breaks away from the area’s sequence of Liberty-style homes with a bold composition of concrete volumes, glass walls, and terraces. Following a recent conservation-led restoration, the property is now on the market for the first time.
Designed by the Swiss company Bolliger & Mabillard for Six Flags, Tormenta: Rampaging Run will be the world’s first “giga dive coaster”: 94 meters tall, with a 95-degree drop and a vertical loop designed to transform the coaster into the dominant element of the Texan park’s skyline.
On the cover of Chic Nisello 2 by Vegas Jones appear the Pineapple Towers of Cinisello Balsamo, designed by Riccardo Blumer in the nineties. From Scampia to Rozzol Melara, Italian rap is transforming suburbs and forgotten architectures into new cultural icons.
Designed by designer Bailey Hikawa and now distributed globally by Apple, the Hikawa Grip & Stand rethinks the shape of the contemporary smartphone for people with different grip, mobility, and hand size needs.
The new visitor space at Banff National Park is designed not to make noise: it blends into the natural landscape through tactile materials, communal spaces, and echoes of ancestral memory.
Located in the Nomentano district, House with Reflective Furniture punctuates the orderly sequence of rooms through metallic elements and reflective finishes that create an intriguing play of light.
Kho Liang Ie designed furniture, interiors, and airports without ever losing sight of the needs of those who use them. Fifty years after his passing, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam celebrates him with a tribute exhibition.
The “RomaContinua” project, led by IT’S together with OMA and a multidisciplinary team, has won the “Vision for Rome” competition by proposing a polycentric vision of the capital. Instead of continuing to expand outward, Rome is reimagined through reuse, infrastructure, mobility, and the reactivation of vacant urban spaces.
Two previously unseen drawings bring back Santa Tecla, the club beneath Milan’s Duomo where, between jazz and Milanese nightlife, the myth of Joe Colombo was born — a 1950s “pre-listening bar”.
For the first time in history, the Fundació Joan Miró is bringing the artist’s works into an Antoni Gaudí landmark alongside photographer Joaquim Gomis. “Gaudí, Miró, Gomis: Deconstructed” turns Casa Batlló into an immersive exploration of twentieth-century Catalan creativity.
Over the weekend of the 2026 Rome Marathon, New Balance transformed the Corsie Sistine into a temple of running, turning it into a place of care, recovery, and community for participants.
Young filmmaker Kane Parsons has transformed the Backrooms—endless corridors, deserted hotels, and neon-lit offices—from an internet phenomenon into an A24-produced film.
Abandoned for more than forty years, the Charleroi M5 line is being brought back to life thanks to EU funding. The project involves restoring six existing stations, adding two new stops, and finally opening the line by 2027.
“Do architecture” is the theme of the next Venice Architecture Biennale, entrusted to Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu: an invitation to return to materiality, construction, and the concrete coexistence of memory, innovation, and contemporary design.
Amid bold ambitions and staggering costs, Studios Architecture Paris and Selldorf Architects will lead "Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance", the most extensive renovation project of the iconic Paris museum since the construction of the pyramid.
The new Trump-branded skyscraper designed by Gensler in Tbilisi becomes the symbol of a strategy intertwining global branding, diplomacy and real estate power in the Caucasus.
The Cittadellarte project by the master of Arte Povera, Michelangelo Pistoletto, has opened a hotel designed for visitors who want to experience the Biella-based foundation at a slower pace. It marks the latest addition to what has effectively become the “Pistoletto brand.”
From London’s Rolling Bridge to the moving facade of Shanghai’s Fosun Foundation, all the way to Little Island in New York: Domus 2026 guest editor Ma Yansong interviews Thomas Heatherwick about movement, emotion, and the humanisation of architecture.
“In Minor Keys,” the Biennale conceived by Koyo Kouoh before her death in 2025, transforms performance, ritual, and collective processions into a diffuse elegy, making live performance the true cultural epicenter of the exhibition.
The Samuel H. Scripps Theatre Centre, designed by Studio Gang for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company, is a laminated timber theatre for outdoor performances that blends in perfectly with nature.
