You’ll soon be hearing about this highway: it could change Africa forever
A highway corridor over a thousand kilometers long will connect some of the largest cities in West Africa and promises to transform economies, territories, and borders.
What the best EU Mies Awards projects tell us about how to practice architecture today
The seven projects still competing for the award outline an idea of architecture that avoids spectacle and star names, focusing instead on relationships – with existing buildings and with the communities around them.
Are we the only ones who think these Milan Olympics feel a lot like a second Design Week?
Triennale di Milano, Casa degli Artisti, Villa Necchi Campiglio, and then pavilions in public squares: the 2026 Olympics are setting up in places that have for years symbolized the Fuorisalone. And of course, there is a huge amount of Italian design.
A canal, a new city: ZHA transforms Hangzhou’s water into a cultural district
In Hangzhou, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, a green corridor will follow the course of a waterway and host striking new buildings, including a large library.
10 design gifts for Valentine’s Day you can buy on Amazon
The Valentine’s Day gift guide: design objects for him, for her, for couples and for yourself, all easily available to buy online.
Alcova’s two locations for Milan Design Week 2026 are (almost) unseen
A Franco Albini villa in Milan that no one has ever seen and the complex of the Baggio Military Hospital, with two newly accessible spaces: the places that Milan’s most renowned platform dedicated to collectible design will occupy for its eleventh edition.
How Moleskine transformed a psychiatric hospital into a design object
A notebook, a pill and a series of pocket journals draw inspiration from the beds of Shanghai’s most iconic mental health institution.
In Resident Evil, the scariest thing has always been architecture
We previewed Resident Evil Requiem and spoke with the development team: bent corridors, darkness and blind spots are the real weapons of fear.
BODW 2025: curiosity as the engine of design innovation
Business of Design Week 2025 placed Hong Kong at the center of the debate on the future of design, with Italy as partner country. Among the Summit’s key speakers were Carlo Ratti, Alan Chan, Carmelo Ficarra, and Viveca Chan.
Inhabiting imperfections: Walter Mariotti on design as regeneration in Tokyo
At the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, during Italian Design Day 2026, the Editorial Director of Domus reflects on the future of design through the Japanese practice of kintsugi — between redesign, care, and the aesthetics of wabi-sabi.
A new museum dedicated to Gio Ponti is set to open in Milan by the end of the year
Inside the Adi Design Museum, a museum will chronicle the life and career of the architect and founder of Domus.
The uniforms of Milano Cortina 2026 volunteers are already on Vinted
Unboxing videos of the Milan-Cortina 2026 uniforms designed for volunteers by Salomon are flooding TikTok feeds. Once again, social media has turned a functional item into something everyone wants.
The most beautiful arena of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics is fake
@gaude.ai imagines the Duomo of Milan transformed into an arena for ice sports and Torre Velasca turned into a high-altitude ski slope.
His Instagram profile reveals something about how architectural criticism is changing — and about the Olympics that await us.