Nestled among the rolling hills of Italy’s Marche region, far from the country’s major logistics corridors, Franke Home Solutions’ manufacturing plant is experimenting with a production model where technology, safety and employee wellbeing are all part of the same architectural vision.
From “little Balis” to the “new Berlins”, contemporary tourism transforms places into desirable copies of more famous destinations. But behind these imaginary shortcuts often lies a loss of identity.
Seven Italian case studies reveal how every era has attempted to construct its own idea of perfection, from Renaissance geometry to company towns and new towns to the residential utopias of the late twentieth century.
From Heatherwick and Ando’s repurposed industrial silos to Bofill’s Fábrica, in the summer issue of Domus, the guest editor Ma Yansong explores the theme of repair as a creative act, breathing new life into memory without venerating the past.
You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
From Botticelli to Baudrillard, via Goya and Eco, beauty is not an immutable category but a constantly evolving idea that spans the history of art all the way to contemporary aesthetics.
From essays on the body and museum archives to monographs on Martino Gamper, Hella Jongerius and Roberto Burle Marx, here are 15 architecture and design books worth reading this summer.
Designed by Elias James McCalip and self-funded, Duality is sold for $45. It transforms two ordinary wired earbuds into small sculptures, restoring identity to technology designed to disappear.
Designed by Albera Monti Architetti, Fisherman's House sits on the slopes overlooking Lake Maggiore, opening up to sweeping views while blending modernist references, local architecture and pop-inspired interiors.
After transforming its industrial heritage, the nomadic European biennial brings contemporary art into twelve churches in the Ruhr to question the future of thousands of religious buildings destined to change function.
Designed by Edoardo Gellner between the 1950s and 1960s, the Borca di Cadore complex was one of Italy’s most ambitious experiments of the postwar economic boom. Today, its historic hotel has reopened alongside the church created with Carlo Scarpa.
With a new project by StorageMilano for the outdoor spaces and the Mistral restaurant, Villa Serbelloni is entering a new chapter. Domus met with the designers and hotel director Jan Bucher to explore the transformation.
Forty years after the death of Jorge Luis Borges, the labyrinth garden designed by Randoll Coate on Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore Island is reopening following a conservation project promoted by PwC Italia and Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
Fog, concrete, post-punk music and social media language. With Soviet Avellino, Pietro Pio Ciampa transforms an inland town in Campania into a shared imaginary, between brutalism, liminal spaces and contemporary visual culture.
The project, designed by Rafael Moneo and Isolarchitetti, will see Pier Luigi Nervi’s Padiglione Agnelli at Torino Esposizioni transformed into the new Biblioteca Civica Centrale, restoring a public function to this 20th century masterpiece.
In the historic center of Pietrasanta, Albergo Pietrasanta houses a contemporary art collection born from the intuition of Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto, featuring works by Accardi, De Dominicis, Ontani, Bonalumi, and many others.
The Floating Piers, the installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo, lasted only sixteen days. Although it no longer physically exists, it continues to influence tourism, the perception of the landscape and the identity of the transformed territory.
The detached house, which overlooks the Danube, embraces flexibility as a design principle, with a structural grid that allows the spaces to adapt over time.
Miriorama / Abitare Costa Paradiso is a limited-edition vinyl born from the encounter between Italian DJ and producer FILOQ’s sonic research and Alberto Ponis’ architecture, turning the landscapes of Costa Paradiso into an immersive listening experience.
Forty years after its debut, Fujifilm has revamped the QuickSnap with two new models, tapping into the resurgence of analogue photography among Gen Z, 1990s nostalgia and the desire for imperfect imagery.
From Rachel Sennott to Balenciaga, finstas–secondary Instagram accounts created to share content with a select group of people – have become a new form of aesthetic capital. Here, apparent spontaneity fosters a sense of exclusivity and belonging.
From the rediscovery of Autoprogettazione to objects that only function through our presence, design is once again challenging us to move beyond the role of passive consumers, encouraging us to become active and conscious inhabitants.
In the July–August issue of Domus, the guest editor 2026 wonders whether architecture's role is to repair the past rather than preserve it.
As part of the O14 project, the Spanish studio reinterprets the building, changing its intended use and revealing its architectural features.
The new C100 ditches the classic color display and uses a transparent screen to frame the scene: it looks like a futuristic solution, yet it brings photography back to an ancient gesture, that of looking through a frame.
The Logitech Mobi Fold is pocket-sized, ultra-thin, and folds up like a flip phone from the 2000s to take up minimal space when not in use. It also comes with a travel case with a carrying strap.
Museums, foundations, galleries, and independent venues are launching new projects and major retrospectives: a guide to the exhibitions worth visiting during the hottest weeks of the year, in Milan or nearby.
Preserved almost entirely since the 1950s, the house designed by Carlo Mollino for Luigi Cattaneo in Agra is now listed on Airbnb, offering a rare opportunity to temporarily inhabit one of the masterpieces of 20th-century Italian architecture.
Brescia’s new Main and Children’s Hospital joins a growing generation of healthcare projects that are reshaping hospitals as more than places of treatment: civic campuses, inhabitable landscapes and symbolic architectures for the contemporary city.
The project by Francesco Lipari, Lillo Giglia, and Giuseppe Conti transforms a peripheral area of Licata into a new civic landmark through sculptural forms, diffused natural light, and echoes of Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier.
The third season of the series based on Hugh Howey’s novels returns to Apple TV+ with ten episodes, new timelines and a central question: what happens when a community survives thanks to a story constructed by power?
Designed by Spolia Office for a sommelier, this country house adopts the codes of a city apartment to rethink life in nature.
Before becoming the stage for the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, MetLife Stadium was the outcome of an unrealized project: building a stadium in the heart of Manhattan, above the rail yards on the West Side, where Hudson Yards — New York's so-called "billionaires' city" — now stands.
