Domus 1032 on newsstands

We’ve learned from our first issue of Domus in January, making corrections using the many observations received. The desire to position and quantify the projects we publish keeps improving. The parameters employed to measure our published contents are indicated by the effects that these features have in terms of capacity (space and usage), sustainability, time and economy. These parameters are shown in tags beside each project description. The categories that bundle the approaches towards a comprehensive world agenda have been clarified: landscape, urbanism, architecture, products, art, politics, governance, agents, users, critics, cinema. Reactions have been noted, as with the “I Amsterdam” polemic, a reality already commented upon in January’s article. Again, we welcome your comments.

We still have time to save the planet but the change has to come from us collectively. Interview with Henk Ovink.

To tackle the current crisis of climate change, we must learn to tell different stories.

“Creative” borders and colossal connecting infrastructural works
characterise the world’s largest metropolitan area.

Hipster imagery filtered through design language is homogenising cafés around the world.

With an overhang of 16 m, the roof is a compositional element which characterises the project.

Like many German cities, Bremen is confronted with an increasing housing shortage and a growing demand for affordable housing. In response to this, the largest Bremen housing association, GEWOBA, has prudently taken on a supplementary extension to their existing 45,000+ housing stock.

The apartment building – one of the first built as part of the programme for the new Greencity district, on which several architectural firms are collaborating – occupies a long, narrow site flanked by the railway and a road.

Deconstructing architecture and building social networks are the Rotor collective’s aims and practice.

Overlooking the old port of Recife, a protected national heritage area, the new museum is divided into the reuse of a historical warehouse and construction of an additional 5,000 sqm.

The system of sliding and folding shutters on the facade defines form and aspect of the tower.

The first automated restaurant in Europe is designed around high-quality slow food.

Pandora is a lush and uncontaminated rain forest, a perfectly balanced ecosystem thanks to its direct biochemical interaction with its inhabitants. It is a utopian vision of a more equitable and spiritual relationship between humans, animals, plants, nature and the whole cosmos.

A temporary and reversible project regenerates public space and returns the street to pedestrians.

From the campaigning of the Coin Street Action Group begun in 1977, the strategies of a London community to safeguard and develop their neighbourhood.

With the ADM eviction, Amsterdam also loses one of the architectures that epitomised the once radical and visionary housing projects that the city seemed able to realise. Long under fierce real estate speculation, the majority of its population now struggle to find affordable housing options, notwithstanding the initiatives of cooperatives and some public agencies. In this uninspiring context, the architectures of the squatting movement still unleash strategies of subversion against the market-oriented housing models and policies that overwhelmingly lead the development of cities.

For the American football final, an ephemeral city works its way into the urban fabric, offering its inhabitants a unique opportunity.

Doors and windows that define the confine between inner and outer worlds and the threshold that sanctions the limit between environments lie at the base of any architecture project.

Bottrop, Ruhr area, North Rhine- Westphalia region. When short of breath, men working for Prosper Haniel, the last coal mine to be shut down in Germany, would look out of windows like those of this house to catch a breath of fresh air. And when they stopped, those who remained would say they had “gone out of the window” (“Weg vom Fenster”).