Understanding Liu Jiakun, Pritzker Prize 2025 Laureate, through 5 main projects
The Chinese architect has been awarded the highest honour in the field of architecture. Here is a selection of his most important designs.
A new Rome: the Jubilee has transformed the city with 9 keyworks
The Jubilee's strategic interventions express the enthusiasm and complexity of the ongoing urban regeneration process, looking to the future.
This 1930s house, renovated in the 1980s, is starting its third life
In Zurich, studio Ductus’ project valorizes a rational architecture by incorporating a 1980s renovation and bringing together satin-finished metals, white tiles and sculptural fireplaces.
The extension of a modernist house by Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro
Siqueira+Azul reinterpret a house by the Brazilian maestro with an extension that inherits his language and expands it with new interweavings of space and materials, perspective views and paths through greenery.
When being Modern destroys cities
The legacy of European urban planning in Cali, Colombia, shows how dreams of progress erase communities.
There is a “new” Muralla Roja, and it’s in Albania
Bofill Taller de Arquitectura overlays a pixelated geometric pattern on the landscape of the Albanian Riviera of Dhërmi, re-proposing with the Red Sol Resort the suggestions of the Muralla Roja.
A house in Malaysia is inspired by the moon phases
To renovate an old house with an extension, Fabian Tan created a continuity between sky and domestic space by inserting an opening metal half-cylinder above the new living room.
The landmarks that will transform Milan for the Olympic Games
From Big to Renzo Piano, from CityLife to Porta Romana, Domus takes a look at the work in progress in Milan, with projects expected to be completed by 2025, or by the 2026 Winter Olympics.
What we know about Carlo Ratti’s Biennale, pavilion by pavilion
With Carlo Ratti’official unveiling, more details have been revealed about this year’s Biennale, which will focus on climate change and feature four new pavilions.
The secret garden of a Portuguese town hall
To make a historic municipal building accessible, Bak Gordon and RM Arquitectura created an intimate and mysterious public space, protected by the warm tones of plastered walls and vegetation.
Visiting the Centre Pompidou for the last time, before it closes in September
The famous building by Rogers, Piano, and Franchini will remain closed until 2030 for renovation. Here's what to know before seeing it one last time.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
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.
5 churches of the 20th century in Rome: masterpieces of sacred architecture
From Marcello Piacentini to Richard Meier, through the graces of a "minor" architecture: an excursus on the ideas and forms of religious architecture of the Eternal City in the 20th Century.
AI is booming in construction
A recent study highlights the success of artificial intelligence not only in terms of design. We had it explained to us how things are progressing and what we can expect.