A Madrid apartment renovated with interior sculptures
DIR reinvents a home, freeing it from a strict layout and punctuating the spaces with sculptural fixed furnishings that organise – and sometimes house – domestic life.
The most anticipated buildings of 2025
New museums, works that will change Milan and Rome forever, and new towers: the architectures we expect to see completed by the end of next year are associated with great names, from Jean Nouvel to OMA, from Gehry to BIG.
New Opel Grandland,
how design legacy can lead
toward a sustainable future
30 years ago, Jean Nouvel presented the Fondation Cartier in Paris
Today, the Fondation is preparing its new location near the Louvre; in 1994, it inaugurated its first building, an iconic garden-glass box open to Boulevard Raspail through a transparent screen.
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Now you can share your work through a new function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects.
2025’s most anticipated TV series and films
The return of Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Chalamet, The Brutalist and Robbie Williams turning into a monkey: these are just some of the things we can expect to see this year.
The 10 villas of the year
The villa is one of the most explored architectural typologies in history. From house-museums to celebrity mansions, here are the ones that caught our attention in 2024.
Transparent’s "Brutalist" wireless speaker: a tribute to architecture
Made from 70% recycled aluminum, this uniquely shaped speaker combines a striking design with high-quality sound performance.
The restoration of a historic church is both delicate and poetic
Caarpa Studio has restored a small church of ancient origin and transformed it into a conference and event hall.
All the exhibitions not to be missed in 2025
The new year is just around the corner: an overview of the most anticipated art events around the world.
5 things about Milan we rediscovered with you
Milan is changing fast. But its past and the lesson of modern architecture still amaze. From Gio Ponti's RAI headquarters to the rediscovery of San Siro, a dive between present and legacy.
Architecture and design exhibitions not to be missed in 2025
As the end of the year is approaching, here are some notes on design and architecture exhibitions to see in 2025: from Italy to the United States, through Northern Europe and Japan.
An elevated walkway is the first step towards a walkable Dubai
The Dubai Walk plan, which envisages the construction of around 6,500 kilometres of pedestrian paths and will radically change mobility in the city, has been approved.
The best renovations of 2024
Reuse of architecture is a shared value, as a selection of projects published this year can tell us, including symbols reborn, large stations, small clubs, museums, houses and, predictably, a lot of Paris.
10 most innovative and sustainable projects of 2024
From the regeneration of small villages to ambitious metropolitan projects, we have selected the boldest projects in imagining new ways of living in the challenge against climate change.
Abandoned architecture in Italy: 11 buildings now disused, but not to be forgotten
A journey across interrupted dreams and buildings left to their fate: from forgotten authored architectures to the most buzzed cases on media.
The best architecture projects of 2024
Once again, among the architectures we published this year, we have selected stories of housing, infrastructure, places for culture, recollection and entertainment, capable of expanding the collective dimension of cities and landscapes.
Zemeckis’ Here: a film that chronicles the 1900s through a single room
Furniture takes center stage in the latest film by the director of Back to the Future in a visual adaptation of the graphic novel that inspired it, reuniting the Forrest Gump team 30 years later.
The 10 tiny houses of 2024
From micro-apartments in the city to prefabricated houses by Ikea or Elon Musk, a selection of projects that are trying to tackle today's housing crisis.
Squid Game 2 reviewed: this is pure architectural mythology
We watched the second season of the highly anticipated Netflix series, which once again uses environments and architecture as the vector of its perfect narrative mechanism.
“I became an architect by accident”: Bjarke Ingels on Domus
A youthful, not-yet-abandoned fascination with science fiction animates Ingels to look beyond the constrictions of current reality. It also informs his design vision.
11 new bivouacs in the Alps
Bivouacs embody the quintessence of essential living and experimentation, with shapes that emancipate themselves from picturesque imitations of traditional structures.
21 Brutalist buildings from around the world you should know about
The Brutalist movement tells at different latitudes of the spirit of rebirth of the post-war period, of the desire to refound a functional and unashamedly antigraceful architecture in defiance of fashion, imbued with social responsibility.
A new house in historic Basel, inspired by Adolf Loos
Brandenberger Kloter Architekten replaced an old garage with a house dominated by the spirit of Raumplan, a visual continuity that connects interior spaces with each other and with the surrounding nature.
Exploring the real Macondo: here is the town that inspired 100 Years of Solitude
Aracataca, the real-world inspiration behind Gabriel García Márquez’s fictional universe, differs significantly from Netflix’s new series — a portrayal that ultimately brings no benefit to the town itself.
Dorothea Lange photographed the Great American Depression in its harshness: now on display in Italy
A major exhibition in Perugia with more than 130 shots chronicling the cruel conditions of the 1930s in the U.S. and the subsequent deportation of Japanese Americans.
Now eBook readers are in color
We tested the new color eBook readers from Kindle and Kobo – a significant step forward, though their purpose remains somewhat unclear.
The best interiors of 2024
A selection of interiors published along this year tells us stories of transforming spaces for living, working and sharing, between contemporary gestures in dialogue with historic spaces.
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan's tour has crafted a new aesthetic
Two strong visual identities, that of Brat and the Australian singer, merge in the setup designed by COUR, who tells Domus how they created one of the most relevant shows of the year
A mould redesigns Tokyo's subway in just 28 hours
A recent study published in Science shows how a simple single-celled organism called Physarum Polycephalum was able to rethink the entire subway network of the Japanese megacity.
How a Doha flour mill is turning into Qatar’s new super museum
Chilean-based practice Elemental run by Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena has designed Doha’s next show-stopping art museum to be among largest museums in Middle East.
The dream of Venice
On December 20, 1577, a fire destroyed the Hall of the Great Council in the Doge’s Palace, but Venice knew how to transform tragedy into triumph. The reconstruction of the Hall became a unique opportunity to exalt the glory of La Serenissima through art, with works by Veronese, Tintoretto and Palma il Giovane.
The design of cuteness: Hello Kitty at 50
The kitty-girl that from Japan conquered the world is half a century old. We explore its timeless appeal and the meanings behind its iconic design.