15 innovative urban beach projects for going to the beach in the city
From Basel to Mexico City, urban beaches are one of the most interesting challenges in metropolitan design. Discover our selection here.
Carl Hansen & Søn: an elegy of wood in Scandinavian design
The company producing masterpieces such as the Wishbone Chair, founded on the Danish island of Fyn, run for over a century by the founder’s family, has made the union of traditional craftsmanship and industrial culture world-famous.
Edoardo Tresoldi’s stunning wire-mesh installation in Bari
Currently under construction in the archaeological area of San Pietro in Bari after four years of work, the installation is an act of reclaiming and rebirth, raising questions about the city and the deeper meaning of building.
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What can the new robot vacuum cleaners really do? We tested them out
We tested the latest generation of robot vacuums—today’s must-have domestic gadget—and found machines that are smarter, stranger, and still surprisingly needy.
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Dirt Shoe is a shoe that plants flowers as you walk
Created by Studio Basura and Yerba Madre, the shoe is made from soil and plant fibers and releases wildflower seeds with every step, gradually crumbling until it completely falls apart.
Wood: a key resource for south tyrol
In this northern Italian region, wood is a vital resource that brings together tradition, the economy and environmental protection. The short and sustainable supply chain is worth €1.3 billion and involves thousands of local companies.
5 absurd objects that tried to change the future
Between technical utopia and an obsession with control, these five inventions, each designed to improve everyday life, reveal the most unsettling – and oddly fascinating – side of modern design.
Milan, a new foundation dedicated to design comes to life
Two years after the passing, the Rodolfo Dordoni Foundation seeks to give voice and shape to the design legacy of the Milanese architect and designer.
Sou Fujimoto designs a holiday home that blends so fully into the landscape, it’s invisible from above
In Japan, the exclusive holiday villa interpenetrates into the landscape, combining design, luxury and sustainability and disrupting the ordinary hierarchy between interior and exterior.
A new pedestrian bridge in Croatia echoes the hull of a ship
Designed by Prostorne Taktike, the new pedestrian bridge over the Foša Canal in Trogir connects the old town and urban park with a lightweight steel structure inspired by the town’s naval tradition.
Why China built a 50-million-dollar inflatable dome over a construction site
A lightweight, modular, and digitally controlled engineering solution, part of China’s broader objective to reduce the environmental impact of construction sites in densely populated urban areas.
For a new ecology of living
Ada Bursi’s legacy is transformed into an exam project of the two-year Interior Design specialist program at IED Turin, unfolding a narrative on contemporary living, between ecology, spatial flexibility, and social awareness.
A surreal Milan shaped by the masterpieces of italian architecture
Fighting atop St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, running into Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, and exploring many other settings inspired by Italian architecture, especially in that of Milan: this is what happens in Stonemachia, a video game where historical reality is reimagined through a fantasy lens.
Domus 1103 hits the shelves
In the double issue of Domus for July August, guest editor 2025 Bjarke Ingels focuses on fabric and plastic, two historic supports for architecture, imagining their future political and aesthetic scenarios.
I.M. Pei’s Louvre design is no longer enough – in 2031, everything will change
The French government is looking for the design that will transform the world’s most visited museum by 2031, in what will be its most important intervention since the Eighties. Here’s what we know so far about the expansion and renovation of Paris’s Louvre.
Bjarke Ingels: plastic and fabric for inhabiting the existing
From the mirrored sphere The Orb to MVRDV's carpet in Bangkok: the July August issue of Domus, edited by guest editor 2025 Bjarke Ingels, explores new ways of living that involve plastics and fabrics.
The most important cyberpunk novel is being made into a TV series, starting from the interior of a bar
William Gibson's Neuromancer is being adapted for Apple TV+. Set in the Chatsubo bar, it invites viewers to enter a world of sentimentality and speculation, where every corner and neon lamp tells the story of cyberspace, balancing loneliness with hallucinatory futures.
What is Villa Girasole: a visionary Italian house that rotates to follow the sun
The original and pioneering building, a rotating mechanical flower in the province of Verona, recently opened to the public for guided tours, offers a “ ride” on a realized utopia, between mechanical engineering and poetics.
Ceramic mania: here’s why everyone loves it, again
Part hobby, part political statement, and part lightweight companion to increasingly mobile lifestyles: ceramics are making a comeback. Let’s explore the design revival of this ancient material through new research and resurgent trends.
Time Space Existence: the Future of Architecture In Venice
Until November 23, 2025, Venice is the global hub for architectural discussion with "Time Space Existence." This biennial exhibition, spearheaded by the European Cultural Centre, features projects from 52 countries, all focused on "Repairing, Regenerating, and Reusing" for a more sustainable future.
The 16 most influential T-shirt designs of all time
As the quintessential symbol of everyday life, we have traced the history of this garment through 16 examples that made fashion and design history, from classic icons to contemporary innovations and reinterpretations.
The surprising architectural gems of Italy’s ports
Domus has curated a selection of projects in Italian ports, exemplary cases that represent the complex transformation of the relationship between port and city.
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Hôtel Les Roches reopens on the Côte d’Azur: in the past it hosted Humphrey Bogart, Christian Dior, and Thomas Mann
With a history marked by some of the 20th century’s most influential cultural figures, this hotel, perched on the inlets of Peire Gouerbe in Le Lavandou, has been reborn through a contemporary, thoughtful reinterpretation of its original spirit.
Want to understand AI? Read a book
We suggest you ten essential books – all published in the last five years – for Domus, to understand how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, today and into the future.
In this game, you heist looted artifacts from Western museums to return them to Africa
With Relooted, the restitution of African art enters the language of video games, as the global debate takes shape in concrete actions between Europe and Africa.
Wright’s unbuilt tower would dwarf the Burj Khalifa – and it was designed 70 years ago
Seventy years ago, the American architect presented The Illinois to the world: a tower more than two kilometres high and containing a veritable city with nuclear-powered elevators. Thanks to renderings by architect David Romero, we can now see what it would have looked like.
In Copenhagen, BIG designs three plazas as if a meteorite had struck the city
BIG wins the competition to renovate public spaces in Ørestad, around the largest concert area in the Nordic region, prefiguring them as places of sociality and interaction for all forms of life.
Nothing Headphone (1) review: pushing design language to the limit
Rectangular, transparent, unapologetically odd: Headphone (1) marks a new high point in the young tech brand’s Space Age aesthetic. We tested it — here are our impressions.
Discovering Milan on foot: the architecture of Porta Venezia
Domus accompanies you on a walk to discover the area of Porta Venezia, tracing its evolution from the sixteenth-century Lazzaretto to a district dotted with emblematic rationalist architecture.
Designing from a single gesture: Vaselli’s latest collection
The Hoop series translates a morphological gesture into a family of travertine bathroom furnishings, where the poetry of the material meets the rigor of form.
The first photos of Peter Zumthor’s long-awaited LACMA expansion
In Los Angeles, the David Geffen Galleries designed by Peter Zumthor have exceptionally opened their doors to the public, for an enlightening peek at the spaces that will house the LACMA permanent collection and that will be inaugurated in 2026.
Domus Portrait: Listone Giordano between design and humanism
Within the Domus Portrait project, Listone Giordano tells its story through the cultural and interdisciplinary vision that has always guided its identity: wood as a primary material, a synthesis of humanism, science, and design.
A Bauhaus villa on Lake Geneva is up for sale, built by the architect of DDR
In the 1930s, stage designer Alexandre Ferenczy and architect Hermann Henselmann – who would later gain fame for Berlin TV Tower and Karl-Marx-Allee – collaborated on a Bauhaus-style Villa Kenwin near Montreux, a manifesto home for three intellectuals, now back on the market.
With Google’s new AI search, links are obsolete — and someone’s losing out
Google’s new AI features like AI Overview or the revolutionary AI Mode provide instant, summarized answers by synthesizing content from news outlets — but at the cost of driving traffic away from websites.
The Grand Palais reopens after restoration: “Now it’s ready for the next hundred years”
Four years of work and a €500 million budget have brought one of Paris’s most imposing landmarks back to life: the Grand Palais, which reopens with exhibitions curated by the Centre Pompidou.
Zaha Hadid designs a garden city in the desert of Sharjah
Zaha Hadid Architects new masterplan for Khalid Bin Sultan City introduces a new city organised around a two-kilometre linear oasis.