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You can buy the pieces to build yourself the Eames house: it's happening at Fuorisalone 2026
The home-studio of Charles and Ray Eames becomes a purchasable modular system. Meanwhile, at the Milan Triennale, two full-scale pavilions tell the story of the project during Design Week.
At Fuorisalone 2026 there will be 10 unmissable large-scale installations that will transform Milan
From monumental courtyards to cloisters, from historic swimming pools to university spaces: here are ten installations of Fuorisalone 2026 that promise to transform Milan during the days of Design Week.
At Fuorisalone 2026, Ikea transforms food into design and presents new objects
With Food for Thought, Ikea transforms Spazio Maiocchi into a place where food becomes a project and a collective experience. Between live cooking, temporary market and new products from the Ikea PS collection with lamps designed by Raffaella Mangiarotti.
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Milan Design Week is the perfect chance to step inside the city’s hidden historic palazzi
One of the most fascinating aspects of Milan Design Week isn’t just the installations—it’s Milan’s historic palazzi and grand buildings. Behind closed doors, among hidden courtyards and decorated ceilings, Domus selects the most remarkable ones to visit in 2026.
Kooo architects and the renovation of a historic japanese Sukiya house
In Narutaki, in Kyoto, the firm has undertaken a project involving a historic Japanese house. The project blends restoration with new construction, creating a space that bridges the past and the present.
The objects in Giorgio Morandi’s paintings, photographed one by one
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s largest sculpture in the world may never be built
Between war in the Middle East and missing approvals, The Mastaba—the massive sculpture made of 410,000 barrels planned in the Abu Dhabi desert—remains on hold, while a new exhibition in Germany explores all the unrealized projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
The Biennale has “cancelled” its Golden Lion–winning bar by Tobias Rehberger
At the Giardini of the Venice Biennale, the bar is no longer what you remember: with the new Central Pavilion, the café designed by Tobias Rehberger—awarded the Golden Lion in 2009—has disappeared.
Demolished after just a few years: what is happening to Kerez’s car parks in Bahrain
The Bahrain Ministry of Culture had commissioned four reinforced concrete car parks in the historic centre of Muharraq from the Swiss architect. Two were demolished in recent weeks, without any official explanation. We interviewed the architect to reconstruct the story.
Architecture and design in the UAE during war: how Dubai’s creative industry is reacting
While most construction continues across the United Arab Emirates, architects and designers are finding new ways to work amid instability—between resilience, caution, and adaptation.
How Tecno built cameras that accurately capture darker skin tones
For decades photographic technology struggled to render darker skin tones accurately. TECNO turned that bias into a design problem — and a technological advantage that helped the company expand across Africa and other emerging markets.
Milan Design Week is coming: the must-see exhibitions you can’t miss
It's not easy to keep up with all the must-see exhibitions in Milan during Art Week and Design Week 2026: that's why Domus has selected the unmissable events to mark on your calendar for the craziest two weeks of the year.
15 Milanese homes tell the story of a century of living
From Muzio to Boeri, via Gardella, Magistretti and Rossi: fifteen buildings reveal how Milan has turned housing into a singular architectural tradition between hidden courtyards, terraces, and new urban landscapes.
Limit Architecture has designed a portable greenhouse
Called the “Sementeira Ambulante”, it toured the streets of Braga during the Forma da Vizinhança Festival, raising public awareness of environmental issues with its bright yellow colour.
Philippe Starck’s first project in Vietnam is a residence that emerges from the landscape
The project combines the French designer’s “humanistic” vision with an Eastern sensibility that blurs the boundaries between architecture and nature, reinterpreting the relationship with eternity.
The real White House is inside: design, daily life and propaganda
From furnishings to daily rituals, the White House shows how power is constructed in domestic space. An exhibition at Dropcity, Milan, reveals the mechanisms between institutional representation and private life.
Domus brings Ma Yansong to Politecnico di Milano
What happens when architecture is no longer architecture? During Milan Design Week, Domus guest editor Ma Yansong reflects on the future of a discipline that has already moved beyond its traditional boundaries.
Three houses by Carlo Scarpa to discover in Venice
Before the masterpieces of his maturity, an exhibition at L'Era Gallery brings to light three Venetian houses - between the 1940s and early 1950s - that tell the Scarpa of living, including details, furnishings and relationships with the lagoon.
In Belgium, MAKER Architecten is redeveloping a brick residential block
Through a series of scattered 'interventions' that reinterpret the area's historical legacy, the firm is reusing and preparing the site's original materials for future recycling.
The battle for Berlin’s SEZ: demolition or a new urban utopia
Caught between an increasingly homogenized present and a mythologized past, the German capital is undergoing a profound identity crisis. Its future may be decided among the ruins of the SEZ, where two opposing visions of urban development are locked in conflict.
A floating stage for living on water in the Amazon
In the Peruvian Amazon, Espacio Común built a floating stage during the flooding of the Itaya River for a festival of young filmmakers. It has now become a permanent infrastructure.
Leandro Erlich’s sculptures in Scarpa’s Olivetti Showroom, one of the most anticipated exhibitions of the 2026 Biennale
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco hosts the fantastic and surreal works of Leandro Erlich: an exhibition project we will be hearing a lot about.
A new, remarkable museum makes one thing clear: Shenzhen is now a cultural capital
In Shenzhen, the Róng Museum of Art designed by Büro Ole Scheeren confirms that in the Chinese megacity, what shines is no longer just technology.
Scrubs is back. And with it, the ambitious set design of Sacred Heart Hospital
If Grey's Anatomy turned the hospital into melodrama, Scrubs has always chosen irony. In anticipation of its return, Roger Fires previews how he recreated the series’ iconic settings
An artist has “broken” Tadao Ando’s architecture at Punta della Dogana
In Venice, Paulo Nazareth’s exhibition intervenes in Ando’s space, transforming it from a neutral container into a device shaped by history, bodies, and trade routes—reactivating the memory of the Dogana.
Sound systems are now design fetishes, from the Serpentine Galleries to Milano Design Week
Sound systems move into museums, boutiques and even brutalist churches, shifting listening from background to space. We set out to understand what this shift really means.
Sora’s shutdown shows we no longer own our creative tools
Those who were working with Sora suddenly found themselves without a tool. An episode that reveals an increasingly widespread condition: the precariousness of creative software in the age of artificial intelligence.
The renovation of a socialist icon in Berlin: from Stalinallee to a showroom
On the Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin, a former children's department store designed by Hermann Henselmann is reborn with a new function thanks to the design by Gonzalez Haase AAS.
The sky in a room
From Gino Paoli’s song to the frescoes of Mantegna, Correggio, and Tiepolo, and on to James Turrell: how a room becomes sky—and how space exists only through the gaze of the one who inhabits it.
The architecture of the idol: how the design of success has changed from Hannah Montana to today
From the sealed sets of network television to the algorithmic construction of the self, the trajectory of teen idols reveals how the boundary between adolescence and adulthood has become increasingly unstable.
A micro-home for emergencies: Lorenzo Damiani’s design for the homeless
With Street Bed Unit, Lorenzo Damiani transforms the idea of hospitality into an essential and transportable microarchitecture designed to offer shelter and dignity to homeless people. But can design really respond to a social emergency?