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The editorial of the December issue deals with the theme of the city as a common good, true priority of our time.

Among the projects of this month the Richti district, designed by Magnago Lampugnani near Zurich, the construction of which in an empty area found its generating element in the design of the public spaces; the new Elizabethan theatre designed by Renato Rizzi in Gdansk, which allows viewers to experience unprecedented space; and then the transformation of a glorious Moscow movie theatre from the 1930s into a museum of contemporary art by Robbrecht en Daem architecten and the new studies on Camillo Boito’s work face from different perspectives the issue of conservation in architecture.
December issue features two projects of private houses, that of Jonathan Woolf for several generations of the same family on the outskirts of Nairobi, which morphologically adapts to a sloping site, and the house with garden Neoptolemos Michaelides designed in the sixties in Nicosia, which is now the centrepiece of an exhibition on the work of the Cypriot architect. The school this month is the Escuela de Arquitectura della Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile that after forming leading designers, is facing a new challenge: to improve the relationship between the discipline and the city; while Steven Holl, in its course at Columbia University, has chosen the relationship between music and architecture as a tool to pull architecture’s craft and its rules back to a central position. On the centenary of Lina Bo Bardi’s birth MAXXI Architecture and Domus pay homage with an exhibition that traces the formative years between Rome and Milan. The magazine has reprinted a 1947’s text written from Brazil and, in annex, an anastatic reprint of the first issue of the magazine A, edited by Lina Bo with Carlo Pagani and Bruno Zevi and published by Editoriale Domus in 1946.
The feedback leads us in Gonçalo Byrne’s Lisbon. In the Elzeviro Gianfranco Dioguardi proposes to rethink and reinvent the city by turning it into an enterprise where we organise the territory’s conservational and cultural maintenance through the full involvement of the citizenry. Last but not least: free with Domus the 2015 edition of the Europe’s top 100 schools of architecture and design.