At LUMA Arles, Hans Ulrich Obrist explores the work of Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid through paintings, drawings, conversations and archival materials, showcasing her designs long before they became buildings.
Within the innovation district born on the former Expo site, Stefano Boeri designs a contemporary monastery for the Diocese of Milan, dedicated to interreligious dialogue, research, and contemplation.
Open profiles, essential ribbing, no more grams of plastic than necessary: in the year of the monobloc, the Linnéa project has brought the relationship between designer and industry back to the center, in the best tradition of Italian design. The protagonists tell us about it.
The Italian-based luxury audio company Thuono Audio develops turntables that combine Italian design, precision engineering and high-quality materials to obtain a unique sound profile.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
A new hotel designed by a renowned Italian architect is opening in the heart of Rome, in the former Bank of Italy. We visited it with the interior architect from GA.
Amid geopolitical controversies, cross-accusations, and the Buttafuoco case, the 2026 Art Biennale is being overwhelmed by its own “discourse”. While “In Minor Keys” attempts to construct a meditative exhibition, the most explosive present—from AI to war—remains off-screen.
Over the weekend of the 2026 Rome Marathon, New Balance transformed the Corsie Sistine into a temple of running, turning it into a place of care, recovery, and community for participants.
In the new illy Art Collection unveiled at the Venice Biennale, British-Bengali artist Mohammed Z. Rahman turns an espresso cup into a reflection on labor, memory, and colonial history.
Three light sculptures and a video mapping by artist Marco Lodola transform Teatro alla Scala to celebrate 80 years since its historic post-war reopening.
In the northern Venetian lagoon, between Murano and Burano, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo reopens the island of San Giacomo after decades of abandonment, transforming a former military site into a cultural ecosystem. We were among the first to visit it.
From the projects of Sanaa, Snøhetta and Big to Lina Ghotmeh’s Beirut, alongside the dialogue between Ma Yansong and Thomas Heatherwick, the May issue of Domus explores architecture not as a static form, but as a constantly shifting composition designed to make us “feel alive.”
At the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio, an exhibition reinterprets almost sixty years of modern architecture through materials, construction details and the marks of time. Discovering something important along the way.
Between protests, sit-ins and political tensions, the opening of the Venice Biennale shows that contemporary art is still a field of conflict. And it is precisely this that makes it alive, in a present often anesthetized by consensus.
Sound systems have evolved from invisible support tools into the centerpiece of space itself. Across listening bars, micro-clubs, and immersive installations, sound is becoming one of the strongest icons of contemporary design.
From the tactical squares born with paint and ping-pong tables to structural construction sites that transform asphalt into permeable surfaces and trees: Milan accelerates its urban metamorphosis, neighborhood by neighborhood.
As small as a Magsafe wallet, with an e-ink screen and up to two weeks of battery life, the Xteink X3 and X4 are creating a minor obsession online: minimalist devices designed for reading without notifications, social networks, or distractions.
From the Giardini and the Arsenale to exhibitions across the city, geopolitics, climate collapse and national identities take centre stage in Venice. There is a huge amount to see, perhaps even too much: here are the essential ones.
Among the most visited installations of the week, Uzbekistan’s project at Palazzo Citterio becomes a temporarily permanent space: a contemporary yurt between memory, landscape, and environmental changes, open to visitors until the summer.
In the May editorial for Domus, Ma Yansong challenges the idea of architecture as “frozen music.” Buildings, he argues, are not static forms but ever-changing spaces shaped by moving bodies, light, and human relationships.
From Lawrence Abu Hamdan to Janis Rafa, by way of the radical installation of 2050+: Canicula transforms Venice’s Ospedaletto into one of the most powerful visual experiences of the 2026 Art Biennale. An exhibition that speaks of images, propaganda, crisis, and attention — asking what it truly means to look today.
From the Esprit Nouveau Pavilion in Bologna to the Villa Baizeau in Tunis, via Marseilles and Berlin, Cristian Chironi has inhabited Le Corbusier's architecture for years: a project that puts it to the test in real life.
RewindPix has surpassed 830,000 euro on Kickstarter: a digital compact camera that doesn’t just imitate the aesthetic of film, but reconstructs its limits, rituals, and timing.
For two days during Milan Design Week, a temporary tea house by Cromo opens the terrace of Torre Velasca to the public, transforming the BBPR-designed landmark into a space suspended between ritual, design, and a new urban perspective.
For the 2026 Venice Biennale, Palazzo Manfrin reopens to the public with an exhibition bringing together Anish Kapoor’s architectural models, mirrored sculptures, Vantablack works, and immersive installations that transform space into a perceptual experience.
At the Giardini della Biennale, Labics reinterprets over a century of stratifications, transforming the Central Pavilion into a coherent and accessible system featuring new functions, a café, and social spaces.
With Scout, Konstantin Grcic doesn’t offer a solution to the contemporary office; instead, he stages its crisis: an open, reconfigurable furniture system that reflects a way of working that is still unstable—something to be built rather than designed.
The new David Geffen Galleries redefine the museum through a continuous, non-hierarchical journey immersed in natural light. But in transitioning to the scale of a major global institution, can Zumthor’s sensory architecture still maintain its signature intensity?
Mauricio Cortés, architect of the Tower of Jesus Christ, tells Domus how Sagrada Familia, Antoni Gaudí’s most important project, has been built and passed on.
The Milano Green Circle 90/91 project transforms the route of the 90/91 into a continuous green corridor: an urban infrastructure that improves air, soil and biodiversity, supported also by the Armani Group.
We met one of the greatest living writers: to mark the Italian release of Kolchoz, Emmanuel Carrère speaks to Domus in an exclusive interview about how houses and urban spaces become the key to understanding his family’s genealogy.
At the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Transforming Energy stages the artist’s contradiction, through dialogues with Tiziano, rituals of presence, and a digital avatar: an exhibition that works when it forces you to slow down.
The Prix Versailles selects seven new museums around the world: from Abu Dhabi to Japan, projects that transform the museum into a narrative, immersive, and urban space, combining technology, memory, and landscape.
