A digital passport for event acess is the big innovation of Fuorisalone 2026
During this year’s Milano Design Week, a single QR code will grant access to events, starting with the Brera Design District.
Mario Cucinella to rethink the Italian hill town of Urbino, following in Giancarlo De Carlo’s footsteps
In the small Italian city long seen as a model of humanist urbanism, Mario Cucinella Architects presents a new masterplan, carrying forward a cultural lineage that stretches from Duke Federico da Montefeltro to De Carlo.
In Colombia, a Biennial returns after forty years, ready to make itself heard
Lucrecia Piedrahita Orrego, architect and curator of the Antioquia and Medellín Biennial, describes the revival of the event as a dispersed project unfolding across unconventional spaces and a city in the midst of redefinition.
The Tamagotchi turns 30: our first digital companion
From a handheld game to affective notifications: how a 1990s object anticipated contemporary digital care.
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Why David Adjaye’s MOWAA still matters, even as the museum remains closed
As protests postpone the opening of Nigeria’s Museum of West African Art in Benin City, David Adjaye’s architecture already articulates a powerful vision for West African modernism, rooted in history, material culture and sustainable construction.
Futurist bar designed by Depero reopens — but only for a limited time
After 40 years, Fortunato Depero’s Futurist bar comes back to life at Milan’s Bagatti Valsecchi House Museum. A rich program of events will bring it to life.
The Monobloc, the world’s most famous plastic chair, becomes art
The artist Kuril Chto transforms the most common object on the planet into a tool for observing landscapes, nostalgia, and everyday life.
The new charge station by Park in Monza is a manifesto of the circular economy
An electric drive-in emerging from the fog of the Po Valley: this is the Power Hub Monza, designed by Park for A2A, generating what a service station usually consumes.
At Berghain, art meets the quantum. And something goes wrong
In the global temple of clubbing, Pierre Huyghe unveils Liminals: an AI-generated figure drifts through a dead landscape as a quantum computer plays the cosmos. A collision of metaphysics and extreme technology that has already sparked fierce criticism.
The Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá asked three former students to design a “carillon” building
Designed by Carolina Jaimes, Juan Esteban López and Alejandro Puentes, the Brutalist-inspired building was conceived as a “sonic break” in the urban fabric of the Colombian capital.
Ettore Sottsass designed very few houses. One of them is in Hawaii
One of the rarest architectural works by the master of Italian design: the Olabuenaga House in Maui is a total work of art that merges architecture, interiors, and objects into a habitable manifesto of Sottsass’s thinking.
How Anish Kapoor describes his Naples metro station on Domus: “a sculpture that you enter”
A new metro station has been added to Naples’ already extraordinary collection: Anish Kapoor, the artist behind Cloud Gate, has created at Monte Sant’Angelo a true contemporary gateway to Hell.
The artwork transforming Casa Batlló’s façade for the centenary of Gaudí’s death
Barcelona’s celebrated house ushers in a pivotal year for the city, with a new space dedicated to contemporary art and the monumental video mapping installation Hidden Orders by Matt Clark.
A table designed by Mangiarotti and Morassutti for a Le Corbusier villa can now be in your home
For the great hall of Villa Schwob, the architects conceived a table whose elegance also lies in its mechanical components; today Agapecasa reissues it for the first time.
Renzo Piano to redesign the area around the Tour Montparnasse
In line with the ongoing renovation of Paris's most reviled tower, Renzo Piano is designing the area of the shopping centre below as a new multifunctional urban space open to the city.
An art weekend in Europe: 10 exhibitions to see right now
New openings, expected returns, and ongoing exhibitions to see in January in European capitals at all latitudes of the Old Continent: from Madrid to Reykjavík, via Rome and Stockholm.
Alex Honnold climbs Taipei 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world, as Netflix broadcasts it live
Probably no architect has ever designed a building to be climbed barehanded; Alex Honnold doesn’t care and will reach the top of Taipei 101 without ropes.
Issey Miyake and ASICS turn a sneaker into a design experiment
Developed through a collaboration between Miyake Design Studio and the renowned Japanese sportswear brand, the new shoe represents a genuine innovation.
Louis Vuitton’s latest runway show is a house of the future, created with Not a Hotel
For the brand’s Fall–Winter 2026 menswear collection, Pharrell Williams stages the show inside Drophaus, a prefabricated house designed together with the renowned Japanese hospitality brand.
Can art save a city? The inconvenient beauty of Gibellina
The Belìce earthquake strikes the Sicilian town in the late 1960s, prompting Ludovico Corrao to entrust its reconstruction to artists such as Alberto Burri. This marks a unique case of urban regeneration in Italian history, it is what today makes Gibellina Italy’s Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.
Even Sony has launched clip-style earbuds
LinkBuds Clip, the Japanese company's new open earbuds, betray the donut-like shape of the original mode to embrace a form factor that has gained popularity recently.
Paint it black: The North Face reimagines its high-altitude line for the urban landscape
With the Summit Series Advanced Mountain Kit Black Edition, The North Face brings into the city the same system designed for high-altitude conditions and for K2: the same technology, the same radicality, a single chromatic gesture.
Through photography, a Puerto Rico community tells the story of how it saved its land
At a contemporary art museum in San Juan, a photography project made with local residents reveals how everyday life, land stewardship, and collective governance have reshaped Caño Martín Peña, a historic tidal channel and the urban area built around it.
The first A$AP Rocky album in this decade is also a film directed by Tim Burton
Don’t Be Dumb has been a long time coming, but it arrives with a visual project that exceeds expectations, involving the director and Danny Elfman, who composed the soundtracks for his most celebrated films.
What’s in Greenland? Five standout buildings on the island Trump wants
The island that Donald Trump wants to become part of the United States is home to remarkable contemporary architecture, designed to adapt to a climate unlike any other in the world.
Vitruvius’s only building has finally been discovered
Excavations in Fano have uncovered the remains of the Basilica described by antiquity’s most celebrated architect in his De Architectura.
The office: a space for identity
The redesign of EY's offices in Italy becomes an opportunity to reflect, in a dialogue between architecture and corporate vision, on the evolution of workplaces. Because in order to enhance the potential of artificial intelligence, we must strengthen human relationships.
Can Rome be a contemporary city?
Two exhibitions in two of the city's leading museums, the Maxxi and the Macro, try to take the capital out of myth and put it back into the global present. With visions that come from two different planets.
What Gio Ponti’s Villa Nemazee in Tehran reveals about Iran today
Not far from the villa completed in 1964 by the founder of Domus, literature professor Azar Nafisi gathers veiled female students in her living room to read banned books. It is the 1990s, and her story goes around the world.
What’s happening in Gibellina, Italy’s Capital of Contemporary Art this year
In 2026, the city of Burri’s Cretto is transformed into a laboratory for cultural policy. A year-long programme of projects questioning the role of art in processes of social, urban, and territorial regeneration.
From war devastation to the “Dubai of the Donbas”: Mariupol portrayed by Gabriele Micalizzi
In Mariupol, the battle between Russia and Ukraine is over, but another war is still being fought: an ideological one, waged through architecture as well.
The words that shape space
Piuarch imagines architectures as devices capable of fostering connections between people, spaces and landscapes, going beyond mere function. Beauty, identity and relationship are the three guiding words that shape this principle.