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.
For Ma Yansong, architecture must “feel nature”
In the February issue of Domus, the 2026 guest editor brings together projects in which sustainability is not just an abstract reference, but a truly lived experience.
A museum just opened in Rotterdam with millions of photographs and it shows you how they survive
At the Nederlands Fotomuseum, archives, conservation labs and even a public darkroom turn visitors from spectators into participants.
Inside a Zaha Hadid tower in Hong Kong, Studio Paolo Ferrari has designed a bar with futuristic influences
Located inside ZHA's iconic “The Henderson” tower, the lounge bar offers a convivial experience that transforms into a surreal journey between memory and imagination.
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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.
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.
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.
Renewing Modernism: Architecturestudio’s design for the ESSEC campus
The Paris-based practice tells Domus about its expansion project for the ESSEC Business School campus, where bioclimatic façades and new pedagogical models come together in a design that ultimately aims to project long-term vision.
Arte Fiera 2026: what’s new and what not to miss at the 49th edition
The event is among the longest-running and most significant for contemporary art professionals and enthusiasts. From February 6 to 8, Arte Fiera returns with a new artistic direction.
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.
We touch screens, but never touch each other: an exhibition on digital surfaces as a form of skin
Thinking of the screen as skin means rethinking the relationship between body and technology. In Emanuela Moretti’s exhibition, the digital becomes haptic and sculptural matter — a sensitive surface that promises contact while revealing its political ambiguity.
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.
In the Como countryside, parentesi.studio has enhanced the original features of this rustic villa
Hexagonal cement tiles and sculptural furnishings characterize the rooms of this traditional country villa, creating a dialogue between the home’s more rustic elements and a new contemporary and essential look.
“Sometimes it’s worth taking the risk” — Jeanne Gang on architecture as a collective choice
From theaters to waterfronts and community centers, the projects by Studio Gang turn listening to communities into built form.
MuseoCity 2026: ten events not to be missed
A journey through museums, archives, foundations, and showrooms that, in the year of the Olympic Games, portrays Milan as a laboratory where culture, enterprise, and design coexist and strengthen one another.
Terrazza Alba in Mexico City is the heart of a Mexican home
Between green ceramic surfaces and the earthy tones of Oaxaca, Omar Vergara Taller expanded an apartment with a hybrid rooftop where social and private spaces intertwine, embracing the surrounding city as a landscape.
How Cecilia Alemani is redefining art curating
From the Venice Biennale to the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, the Italian curator outlines a practice built on listening, care, and a deep engagement with artists and places.
The HBO Max series every design lover must have seen
Five productions where interiors, furnishings, and costumes don’t serve as background but instead tell stories of power, luxury, and social differences—now that HBO Max has arrived in Italy.
These everyday photos look like Renaissance paintings — and reddit loves it
On the platform, users collect and share everyday photos that, purely by chance, closely resemble the aesthetics of Renaissance art.
A construction element is the foundation of this series of super-colorful furniture
Metal drywall tracks take center stage in Drywall by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea, a furniture series where design adopts architecture’s invisible grammar.
In Sentimental Value, the house is a trauma: di you notice the detail that changes everything?
At the center of Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated film, a family home holds everything its inhabitants never resolved, turning domestic space into an emotional trap.
Romeo and Juliet
Four hundred and thirty-one years after Romeo and Juliet’s London debut, the myth of the two lovers of Verona continues to challenge art. Starting from the emotional urgency imposed by Shakespeare, and passing through the canvases of Hayez, Brown, and Dicksee, the story of their tragedy moved beyond the stage to take on form, color, and feeling.
The 5 new things at Salone del Mobile 2026: collectible, forgotten architecture, a newsstand, a film and… Rem Koolhaas
For its 64th edition, Salone del Mobile.Milano leaves behind the headline-grabbing collaborations of recent years and starts again from the fairgrounds, beginning with a new section that is something of an anti-Alcova.
From skeleton sleds to traffic lights: mapping today’s design power with Konstantin Grcic
The Mayday designer uses skis, worn-out suits, and a tape-covered skeleton sled at Triennale Milano to reflect on a form of design that does not seek the wow effect, redefining instead processes, infrastructures, and collective choices.
Donald Trump wants to rethink Washington Dulles, Eero Saarinen’s Modernist airport
Among the proposals is one by Zaha Hadid Architects, featuring a terminal dedicated specifically to Trump.
Schiaparelli turns jewels stolen from the Louvre into a brilliant marketing masterstroke
The haute couture brand reinterprets the jewels stolen from the museum on the Paris runways, using current events as a marketing tool — and offering us a precious insight into what luxury means today.
Decathlon turns 50 with gorpcore… ok, but what is gorpcore?
An archive-driven project anticipates the brand’s fiftieth anniversary and places it within one of the strongest aesthetic languages of recent years: technical outdoor wear turned urban style.
Rediscovering Luigi Ghirri, one of Italy’s great photographers, through an exhibition curated by Luca Guadagnino
Co-curated with Alessio Bolzoni, Felicità brings together previously unseen works and offers a new reading of Ghirri’s practice, highlighting his powerful connection with contemporary visual culture.
Verner Panton’s most famous chair is back, and you choose the colour
"One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes" said the designer whose 100th birthday we are celebrating this year. So Vitra, the company that established his fame, is launching a contest to vote on the color of the next edition of the Panton Chair.