Artefacts

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about artefacts

Project • By +K Architects • Parks/Gardens

Republic Memorial

National Competition for the Republic Memorial in Piracicaba. The program includes a theatre, a library, exhibition space, a cafeteria and a nursery room located in a redesigned square. The proposal was to create an elevated floor in a metal grid that articulates the program and doubles the squares’ floor, providing a lifted garden on the level of the existing treetops.Co-authors: Nuno Ramos e Isabel Imbronito - Team: Paulo MassaoPiracicaba [SP] 2002SECONDE PLACE AWARD More

Project • By Mustard Architects • Private Houses

The Curated Home

The Curated Home embraces the ordinary language of the Victorian vernacular and contemporary design to create an extra-ordinary home for our clients, their children and their home run business in Balham, South London. The architecture and interior design are concerned with the domestic to create opportunities for the display of carefully chosen, much loved possessions and items for sale. Although functional, our clients wanted to address the low levels of natural light and restricted space in their existing home to allow for family social living, larger gatherings and to accommodate an expanding home run business.Practical space and open plan design don’t always go hand in hand but by combining the existing vernacular with modern desig... More

Project • By Brooke Aitken Design • Apartments

Darling Point Apartment

The owner of this apartment had a collection of antique Asian artefacts that were poorly displayed if at all. The design of this apartment sought to create an Asian influence in all rooms and to marry the wonderful collection of artefacts and furniture with new pieces that made a cohesive design. A jade green colour was chosen as a colour that was used throughout to continue this theme into the bathrooms and kitchen. More