The best renovations of 2025
Between completed restorations, unrealized projects, and evolving heritage, renovations reveal better than anything else where global architecture is heading today.
Bentu
The new hanging of the collections and “Bentu. Chinese artists at a time of turbulence and transformation” at the Fondation Louis Vuitton are two different exhibitions, both solidly constructed around the idea of redefining the identity of contemporary Chinese art.
Designing the face in the age of computational imagery and Botox Bars
The face is no longer merely the site of identity, but a designed interface: between filters, “AI-inspired” surgery, parametric aesthetics and body modification, contemporary culture radically reformulates the relationship between image, technology and subjectivity.
Barri Studio’s apartment in Barcelona reinterprets the Venetian terrazzo, indoors
Oak wood and terrazzo with colored glass inlays run across all surfaces: material variation is reduced to a minimum, becoming the very richness of this urban domestic space.
Airbnb headquarters
Designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, the new Airbnb offices in Dublin have been created to cultivate collaboration, interaction and a sense of community.
The manifesto house by Lacaton & Vassal is for sale
With the polycarbonate greenhouse that extended the domestic space of Maison Latapie in Bordeaux, Pritzker Prize laureates Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal wrote a new chapter in contemporary architecture in 1993: now there is an unprecedented opportunity to live in it.
Meet Hito Steyerl, the artist behind one of the most powerful exhibitions around
Hito Steyerl’s “The Island” explores how images, technology, and power intertwine across parallel worlds. We trace the artist behind the exhibition currently on view at Fondazione Prada.
An entire continent is shaping its future around design
From curatorship to cultural strategy, Simone LeAmon launches a new ambition for the Design Institute of Australia: to make design an engine of identity and a horizon for the country’s future.
All the must-see exhibitions of 2026
The new year is approaching, along with our guide to the exhibitions that will shape the international cultural landscape
Milan rediscovers its Colosseum, soon to become the most important new park in the city center
In the southern area of Milan, the Parco Amphitheatrum Naturae (Pan) will transform the remains of a hidden Roman amphitheater into a large public space open to everyone. Architect Attilio Stocchi, who curated the project, told Domus about it.
Steven Holl: Ex of In House
With this house – which geometry is formed from spherical spaces intersecting with tesseract trapezoid – Steven Holl questions current clichés of architectural language and commercial practice.
10 books we’ve read and recommend giving—or reading—this winter holidays
Bacteria that invent architecture, ordinary beauty, radical archives, explosive magazines, and anti-machines: a selection of books to navigate contemporary design, slow down our gaze, and understand what endures.
A Le Corbusier villa on the French Riviera is for sale
Set within the coastal landscape of southern France, Le Corbusier designed this holiday villa for his friend and patron Hélène de Mandrot, blending the Modern Movement with vernacular architecture, rigorous geometries with traditional materials.
The best timber buildings of 2025
Residences, stadiums, theaters, and research centers: an itinerary among five buildings completed or announced in 2025 shows how wood is redefining contemporary architecture.