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.
This year, you could have lived in Zaha Hadid’s final skyscraper in Miami, in a bubble house in New York, or in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille. Just kidding—but at least you can admire them in this selection of architectural masterpieces on the market in 2025.
Between completed restorations, unrealized projects, and evolving heritage, renovations reveal better than anything else where global architecture is heading today.
From prefabricated capsules that can be shipped anywhere in the world to tiny apartments in big cities and igloo-shaped residences, this year's selection has it all.
We explore the main locations of the Winter Olympics: new constructions and established or reinvented venues, awaiting the kick-off of the event which will take place on 6 February at San Siro, in Milan.
New houses, reimagined houses, houses that took on new roles: from apartments and villas to films, experiments, and architectural icons, in Domus’ 2025 the home has been a matter of meaning.
Although it looks like a single house, it is actually two houses in one. This French home has a dual personality: one side faces uphill and the other downhill, with the interior spaces arranged vertically.
Located in the province of Vicenza in northern Italy, this house is brought to life through the aggregation and disintegration of basic shapes, with transparent elements and intertwining views.
The project by the Chinese firm Chuxin Tuoyuan, led by Meng Zhao, proposes a new arts and music center beside Alvar Aalto’s historic town hall, openly embracing the language of the Finnish master.
The Nishiogi Comichi Terrace project remains rooted in the austere imagery typical of the most celebrated residential works of the Japanese master, while at the same time conveying a sense of intimacy and shared open space.
Located near Lisbon, this compact house opens outwards to reveal a series of patios at the heart of its spatial layout and domestic life.
Studio Kyriakos Miltiadou has designed a home as a box within a box, deconstructed from the inside out, shaped by an introverted yet layered and lived-in residential concept.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
We remember the Canadian architect through 60 years of Domus archives: a multifaceted figure who challenged technique to assert how architecture is (also) a work of art.
Between submerged cities, high-altitude airports and inadequate regulations, the voices of Ghotmeh, Gang, Ma, Mandrup, BIG, Snøhetta and others reveal that sustainability is not a single concept. From the Holcim Awards emerges a landscape of differences, contradictions and new possibilities.