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While most construction continues across the United Arab Emirates, architects and designers are finding new ways to work amid instability—between resilience, caution, and adaptation.
From Muzio to Boeri, via Gardella, Magistretti and Rossi: fifteen buildings reveal how Milan has turned housing into a singular architectural tradition between hidden courtyards, terraces, and new urban landscapes.
For decades photographic technology struggled to render darker skin tones accurately. TECNO turned that bias into a design problem — and a technological advantage that helped the company expand across Africa and other emerging markets.
Design and trends for outdoor living spaces
Called the “Sementeira Ambulante”, it toured the streets of Braga during the Forma da Vizinhança Festival, raising public awareness of environmental issues with its bright yellow colour.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
The project combines the French designer’s “humanistic” vision with an Eastern sensibility that blurs the boundaries between architecture and nature, reinterpreting the relationship with eternity.
From furnishings to daily rituals, the White House shows how power is constructed in domestic space. An exhibition at Dropcity, Milan, reveals the mechanisms between institutional representation and private life.
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.
What happens when architecture is no longer architecture? During Milan Design Week, Domus guest editor Ma Yansong reflects on the future of a discipline that has already moved beyond its traditional boundaries.
Before the masterpieces of his maturity, an exhibition at L'Era Gallery brings to light three Venetian houses - between the 1940s and early 1950s - that tell the Scarpa of living, including details, furnishings and relationships with the lagoon.
Through a series of scattered 'interventions' that reinterpret the area's historical legacy, the firm is reusing and preparing the site's original materials for future recycling.
Caught between an increasingly homogenized present and a mythologized past, the German capital is undergoing a profound identity crisis. Its future may be decided among the ruins of the SEZ, where two opposing visions of urban development are locked in conflict.
In the Peruvian Amazon, Espacio Común built a floating stage during the flooding of the Itaya River for a festival of young filmmakers. It has now become a permanent infrastructure.
In Shenzhen, the Róng Museum of Art designed by Büro Ole Scheeren confirms that in the Chinese megacity, what shines is no longer just technology.
If Grey's Anatomy turned the hospital into melodrama, Scrubs has always chosen irony. In anticipation of its return, Roger Fires previews how he recreated the series’ iconic settings
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
Sound systems move into museums, boutiques and even brutalist churches, shifting listening from background to space. We set out to understand what this shift really means.
Those who were working with Sora suddenly found themselves without a tool. An episode that reveals an increasingly widespread condition: the precariousness of creative software in the age of artificial intelligence.
On the Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, a former children's department store designed by Hermann Henselmann is reborn with a new function thanks to the design by Gonzalez Haase AAS.
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
From the sealed sets of network television to the algorithmic construction of the self, the trajectory of teen idols reveals how the boundary between adolescence and adulthood has become increasingly unstable.
With Street Bed Unit, Lorenzo Damiani transforms the idea of hospitality into an essential and transportable microarchitecture designed to offer shelter and dignity to homeless people. But can design really respond to a social emergency?
An eight-part retrospective charts a decade of crossovers between architecture and fashion, from Paris’s Fondation Vuitton to icons like the Twisted Box bag: an exploration of brand, time, and form that moves beyond product.
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.
At HangarBicocca in Milan, exhibitions by Benni Bosetto and Rirkrit Tiravanija turn domestic space into a narrative and relational device, between body, architecture, and participation.
In Troncones, an open-plan café makes use of natural materials, passive ventilation and open spaces to transform the coffee-drinking experience into a leisurely one.
Saved from demolition in 1972 and reconstructed at the Art Institute of Chicago, the trading room of Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange is once again at risk.
In the Lapa district, ALA.rquitectos transforms an existing building into ten small apartments, allowing materials to define the project: original elements are restored and new surfaces engage in a dialogue with Portuguese tradition.
With the passing, at 86, of the entrepreneur who led Brionvega through its defining years, a chapter closes that spanned every dimension of Italian design, from objects to the urban scale, extending to the architectures of James Stirling and Carlo Scarpa.
Amid experimental galleries and radical objects, Collectible Brussels reveals a still-elusive collectible design, where the boundaries between art, craft, and research grow increasingly fluid and hard to define.
With the Stromberger Residence in Pasadena, Henry Eggers introduced modernist touches into the ranch-style language, complemented by the landscaping of master Garrett Eckbo, blending polygonal pools with sweeping views of the Pacific Mountains.
At Triennale Milano, the exhibition “Lella and Massimo Vignelli. A language of clarity” reconstructs a “biography through projects” that goes beyond style: from visual systems for companies and institutions to the grids that now structure interfaces and information, their method continues to organize the way we read the world.
At The Noguchi Museum in New York, a major exhibition explores the complex relationship between the Japanese-American sculptor and the city, through iconic works, unrealized projects, and urban visions left suspended.
