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A work attributed to either Sandro Botticelli or Filippino Lippi—two giants of Italian Renaissance painting—makes the sea a symbolic horizon: the landscape becomes consciousness, the sacred becomes time. domusweb.it/en/art/2025/07…

The Doris Duke Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow — a legendary site for dance on the East Coast — is reborn after the fire: sustainable, flexible, blending technology and Indigenous values. domusweb.it/en/architectur…

A project developed around a nine-meter recessed courtyard transforms vertical circulation into a spatial and relational experience. domusweb.it/en/sustainable…

Studio Marcante-Testa has renovated a 1950s apartment originally designed by Ada Bursi – one of the first registered female architects in Italy – highlighting a “democratic luxury” made of modern spatiality and refined mid-century details. domusweb.it/en/architectur…

In the summer of 64 AD, Rome burned, and with it the dark myth of Nero was born. Centuries later, painters like Piloty and Siemiradzki would turn that moment into a powerful allegory of the fragility of power and human cruelty. domusweb.it/en/art/2025/07…

It is called Dataland and its creator is Refik Anadol, the artist who invented data painting and dedicated an immense installation to Frank Gehry at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. The most interesting thing? The museum is located inside one of Gehry's works. domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

Featuring over 100 photos across two locations, the project channels the director’s unmistakable visual style — and proves its enduring appeal across generations. domusweb.it/en/news/2025/0…

Built in 1969 by architect Maurice Medcalfe, this completely out-of-context residence has become a New York icon. It is now for sale for more than $5 million. domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

Currently under construction in the archaeological area of San Pietro in Bari after four years of work, the installation is an act of reclaiming and rebirth, raising questions about the city and the deeper meaning of building. domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

In Antiparos, ARP-Architecture Research Practice designed a house that is like a logic game, where water, stone, and white volumes interact with the landscape and the radiant light of the Cyclades. domusweb.it/en/architectur…

In the island’s second largest city, the 2010 Pritzker Laureate studio completes the Taichung Green Museumbrary — a visionary hybrid of art museum and library dedicated to multifaceted learning. domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

The new Italian Riviera architectural model kit reproduces the buildings and the setting of a Ligurian seaside village and was selected from the submission of a Lego fan from Oregon. domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House was built in 1953 on the beaches of Sanibel, Florida. Modular and demountable, it has already traveled to California and is now ready for a new location, telling us an honest and “light” story of brutalism. domusweb.it/en/architectur…

A lightweight, modular, and digitally controlled engineering solution, part of China’s broader objective to reduce the environmental impact of construction sites in densely populated urban areas. domusweb.it/en/news/2025/0…

The company producing masterpieces such as the Wishbone Chair, founded on the Danish island of Fyn, run for over a century by the founder’s family, has made the union of traditional craftsmanship and industrial culture world-famous. domusweb.it/en/design-nord…

Between technical utopia and an obsession with control, these five inventions, each designed to improve everyday life, reveal the most unsettling – and oddly fascinating – side of modern design. domusweb.it/en/design/2025…

A flat is now for sale in Trellick Tower, one of the world’s most iconic brutalist buildings and a symbol of London’s urban culture. Once built as public housing, it has since become a beacon of pop and urban aesthetics, celebrated in music, film, and ... domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

Mexican studio Choza experiments with a stone and wood shelter inspired by the Roman impluvium, in dialogue with the mountainous climate of the country's north. domusweb.it/en/sustainable…

Monumental like a temple – or like the museums in Berlin – but bathed in sunlight like a Mediterranean “limonaia”, the villa designed on Lake Garda by the Pritzker Prize-winning designer and Domus guest editor 2020 translates the soul of the landscape ... domusweb.it/en/news/galler…

Two mid-century modern complexes on the Ligurian coast — in Varazze and Ospedaletti — show how Italian holidays can be more than just summer clichés and seaside overdevelopment. domusweb.it/en/architectur…