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 “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"
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Based on official digital twin data, the project transforms Minecraft into an unexpected platform for understanding, simulating, and navigating contemporary urban space.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A 54-kilometer corridor through which 20% of the world's oil passes becomes a lesson in the limits of technology in the face of the complexity of reality.
At the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the exhibition “Claire-obscur” places works by Pierre Huyghe and Fujiko Nakaya in dialogue with the Rotonde designed by Tadao Ando, transforming the concrete cylinder into a perceptual device that reveals the central role of light in his architecture.
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.
The Swiss artist Andrea Valsecchi sculpts iconic models such as the Hermès Kelly and the Chanel 11.12 in marble. A tribute to fashion that oscillates between pop art and kitsch.
In China, the first commercial-scale gravitational energy storage system is about to start operating: a nearly 150-meter-tall tower capable of storing electricity produced by renewable sources.
The Wushan Goddess Escalator has come into operation, a nearly one-kilometre-long vertical mobility system that transforms the slope of the mountainous landscape of the Chinese megacity into urban infrastructure.
The series Love Story has reignited interest in the understated aesthetic of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the wife of John F. Kennedy Jr..
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More than 70 works at the Palazzo Strozzi demonstrate how Rothko transformed painting into a space for contemplation.
This 19th-century terraced house was renovated in the neoclassical style in the 1990s. It has now been reimagined by the Local Local studio, combining traditional building methods with a contemporary aesthetic to restore a sense of lightness and vibrancy to the spaces.
In 1963 the young Vittorio Gregotti redesigned the interiors of his family apartment in Milan as a place where collecting, architecture and everyday life could coexist. Today that home offers a glimpse into a distinctly Milanese tradition: living with art.
At the Paris fair Matter and Shape, limited-edition design experiments with new materials and new typologies: from red mycelium to repairable light bulbs.
With its new campaign for the Musei Italiani app, Italy’s Ministry of Culture tries to tell the story of the country’s museum heritage in a pop key—drawing criticism from several directions. Domus spoke with director Luca Finotti and art director Paola Manfrin.
