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OK Domus Domus Domus GUEST EDITOR MAGAZINE DIGITAL ARCHIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS Magazine Digital Edition Digital Archive language it en Hi Logout Sign up / Log in Menu en News Architecture Interiors Design Art Archive Products Design Essentials Design Stories Submit your project Sections News Architecture Interiors Design Art Archive Products Covers Biographies Architecture Firms Sustainable Cities Gallery Design Stories Domus for Design Magazine Subscriptions Digital Edition Current Issue Guest Editor Digital Archive Nordic Design Specials Design Essentials Modern Work DomusAir Milano Design Week Worldesign Current Issue Domus 1113 hits the shelves Follow us LANGUAGE it en Hi Logout Sign up / Log in Search results No results Please enter a long search term Quick Links: Milano Design Week PROMO Digital Archive Subscribe to newsletter Gallery Apple imagined the console of the future. Unfortunately, it was 1996 Apple imagined the console of the future. Unfortunately, it was 1996 Andrea Nepori News Alvar and Aino Aalto were never just a genius and an assistant At the Vandalorum Museum in Värnamo, a major exhibition celebrates the creative partnership between Aino and Alvar Aalto through January 2027. Featuring over 300 objects, the exhibition recounts an equal collaboration that changed the history of design forever. Nicola Aprile News Polaroid turns anti-AI sentiment into an advertising campaign The brand's new global campaign champions analog photography over screens, chatbots, and data centers, turning nostalgia for instant cameras into a playful critique of AI culture. Andrea Nepori News The new Policlinico is almost ready: after the Bosco Verticale, Stefano Boeri redesigns another piece of Milan The project by Boeri Studio brings a new hospital complex to the heart of the city, consisting of three volumes, high clinical efficiency, urban functions, commercial spaces, and a large green roof designed as a therapeutic device and a new urban square. La redazione di Domus Architecture Focus Green Materials, processes and products for responsible design DISCOVER MORE The new monumental work by James Turrell transforms the Danish sky into light In Aarhus, James Turrell’s hundredth skyspace is a 40-meter-diameter dome where natural and artificial light transform the sky into pure perception. Ilaria Bonvicini News Send us your project! You can share your work through the function by Domus where you can upload your architecture, design, interior, graphics, illustration, photography and art projects. La redazione di Domus In Marseille, for 95,000 euros, you can buy a home by Fernand Pouillon, a forgotten architect of the French reconstruction Eight apartments are for sale in the Building Canebière, built in 1952 by one of the great architects of the French reconstruction, who is being rediscovered today after decades of relative obscurity. Nicola Aprile News Art Biennale 2026 The highlights of the 61st Venice International Art Exhibition. Domus covers “In Minor Keys,” curated by Koyo Kouoh, and the Biennale’s collateral events. In the hills of Los Angeles, Cano House reimagines Californian Modernism Designed by Diego Cano-Lasso, the house revisits the legacy of the Case Study Houses through natural materials, self-built elements and creative reuse, turning modernist lightness into a richer, more tactile architectural experience. La redazione di Domus Architecture Gaudí’s unbuilt New York hotel now exists thanks to AI In 1908, Antoni Gaudí envisioned the Hotel Attraction for Lower Manhattan—a colossal vertical hotel that was never built and was later all but forgotten. On the centennial of his death, artist Thierry Lechanteur brings it back to life with an AI-generated reconstruction. Nicola Aprile News In India, an elevated villa allows animals to move around freely Designed by The Local Crew, the structure is suspended on eight pillars and preserves the continuity of the land while establishing a direct connection with the landscape without blending into it. Chiara Testoni Architecture Insta360 has created a camera unlike any leica has made in a century Designed for professional creators and filmmakers, Luna Ultra brings Leica's design philosophy into the world of gimbal cameras for the first time, marking the company's entry into the creator economy. Alessandro Scarano News What happens if A24 wants to make arthouse cinema with AI? The studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once , Hereditary , The Lighthouse , and its latest hit Backrooms has partnered with Google to develop AI tools for filmmaking, reigniting the debate over artificial intelligence and creative authorship. Laura Cocciolillo News Whimsy: after a century of minimalism, ornament and the superfluous return to design Charms, bows, glitter, and tiny useless objects are everywhere. Yet, behind the whimsy trend lies a much older issue: the return of ornament and the re-evaluation of everything that escapes the logic of function. Lucia Antista News The world’s 16 most beautiful hotels don’t look like hotels From the Orient Express La Minerva in Rome to the Splendido in Portofino, the 2026 Prix Versailles selects sixteen projects that demonstrate how luxury hospitality is becoming a total experience: imaginary homes, scenic retreats, restored palaces, and habitable landscapes. Nicola Aprile News Freitag proves even a cooler bag can become a design object The Swiss upcycling brand reinvents one of summer's most overlooked accessories with a cooler bag made from reclaimed truck tarpaulins and other recycled materials. Nicola Aprile Design Ma Yansong Domus Guest Editor 2026 Discover more What if Commodore had made mobile phones? Its anti-social flip phone seems to come straight from the Nineties The Commodore 64 brand returns with the Callback 8020, a retro-style clamshell phone that blocks social networks and browsers while allowing the use of essential apps. It will be available for order starting June 30, but its price brings it closer to a collector's item than a real dumb phone. Jader Liberatore News Brutalisim and electronic music meet in Milan’s new club Housed in a former industrial building in the Certosa district and designed by Velvet Studio, Duro reinterprets the Brutalist aesthetic in a space dedicated to electronic music, featuring exposed concrete, steel, and urban regeneration. Giorgia Aprosio News Architecture of the sea The sea does not lie, does not console, does not stay still. This is why artists have always sought it out: from Turner to Matisse, as a place where painting meets fear, light, the body, and the most exposed part of oneself. Valentina Petrucci Art In New Jersey, Out of Line has reinterpreted the traditional annexe in a postmodern style Swoop ADU was designed as an extension to a family home, building upon its most distinctive feature: a horizontal line that runs across the façade, forming a continuous element that links the exterior, interior, and furnishings. La redazione di Domus Architecture Will the revival of Milan’s historic Lido also mark its end? It’s becoming a giant private fitness club Built in 1931 to bring the seaside to Milan, the city's historic Lido—a public sports and swimming complex designed for everyone—has been closed since 2019. A new redevelopment plan will replace it with a six-story fitness center and radically transform its monumental swimming pool, creating a Lido without its defining feature. Alessia Baranello News The wooden mountain bench that becomes an emergency micro-shelter Designed by Francesco Faccin for the Trentino Alps, Pancalpina looks like a simple wooden bench, but hides a survival kit and a tent to help those caught unprepared in the mountains. Loredana Mascheroni Design The hotel that works when it rains Completed in 2024, the Xirang Boutique Hotel by Vector Architects translates the richness of the landscape into a sensitive architecture: at its center, a large atrium collects rainwater and transforms it into a spatial experience. Nicola Aprile News In Tokyo’s densest district, this building redefines vertical living with nets and slides Designed by Key Operation, the multifunctional complex at Naka-Ikebukuro Park in the Toshima Ward overcomes the constraints of urban density with a sequence of high-ceilinged spaces and an unexpectedly playful approach to living. La redazione di Domus Architecture The world will end underwater, so Superflex makes art for fish For over thirty years, the Danish collective has challenged the myth of the 'lone genius,' imagining new forms of collaboration between humans, animals, ecosystems, and the built environment. We met with them. Laura Cocciolillo Art What if architecture could be listened to? At Villa Arconati, Terraforma gave it a try In the first edition of Terraforma Radical School, fifteen participants lived at Villa Arconati for four days, moving between field recording, landscape, and sound. An experiment to understand if a garden, a labyrinth, or even silence can become sound architecture. Francesca Chiacchio Architecture Frank Gehry was not just an architect: an exhibition in Porto explains why At the Serralves Museum in Porto, the first major exhibition dedicated to Frank Gehry since his passing uses models, sketches, photographs, and videos to explore not only his works, but how the architect transformed design into a free, physical, and deeply human gesture. Matteo Ruta News As Bali changes at breakneck speed, design tries to point the way forward Between architecture, craftsmanship, biophilia and local materials, Jia Curated returns to Sanur as the island continues its rapid transformation—offering an alternative model for how design, communities and landscapes might coexist. Maria Cristina Didero Design 50 museums to visit in a lifetime A global journey in search of the museums that made history, through nearly a century of the Domus archive. I. M. Pei’s largest archive, the Pritzker winner who designed the modern Louvre More than 1,500 drawings, models, and documents join the MIT Museum collection. Among them, the projects for the Louvre and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston: a donation that chronicles the entire career of the Chinese-American architect. Ilaria Bonvicini News Near Rome, there is a living house, one of the most eccentric pieces of 20th-century Italian architecture: you can now visit it On the Lazio coast, the "Casa Albero" (Tree House) is the realized utopia of Giuseppe Perugini, Uga De Plaisant, and Raynaldo Perugini: a building designed to grow, branch out, and change, now open to the public during select times. Nicola Aprile Architecture Snøhetta transforms Alvar Aalto’s masterpiece, the Paimio Sanatorium, into a hotel The Norwegian firm’s masterplan ushers the modernist complex into a new era by combining hospitality, wellbeing, and culture whilst preserving the humanistic spirit of the original design. Chiara Testoni News Villa Nouvelle Vague is a habitable concrete sculpture where Brutalism becomes organic Overlooking the North Sea in Belgium, Villa Nouvelle Vague by Magalie Munters Architecture explores the meeting point between Brutalism and organic architecture. Conceived as a wind-sculpted concrete volume, it evokes waves, sand and fossils while engaging in a powerful dialogue with its protected coastal setting. Chiara Testoni Architecture Everyone knows ancient Rome. This map reveals the modern city From the Palazzo dei Congressi in EUR to Luigi Moretti’s villas, and from the Morandi Bridge to the Vigna Murata Water Centre, Blue Crow Media’s new Modern Rome Map brings together more than fifty buildings and infrastructures that tell the story of twentieth-century Rome. Alessia Baranello News 10 essentials every designer packs for a camping trip Camping isn’t just a vacation choice—it’s a matter of design. From iconic pieces to self-sufficiency technologies, here are ten items that show how design helps us live away from home. Nicola Aprile News The 7 most beautiful airports in the world today: they look like cities, gardens and temples From China to Germany, via India, Cambodia and the United States, the 2026 Prix Versailles awards seven airports that transform global infrastructure into a narrative of the territory, through gardens, urban squares and architecture inspired by local culture. 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