Twenty years of built and unbuilt work.

Madinah, Saudi Arabia · Hospitality

Multi-use hospitality building

Design stagestage

A 4 370 m² plot in Madinah carrying 32 555 m² of building — which only works if the section is solved before the plan. The elevation is a pointed-arch screen drawn from the city it stands in, and it does structural work: it shades a fully glazed envelope of 29 000 m² in a climate that would otherwise make that glazing a cooling bill rather than a view.

Keys424 across 7 room types

Height71.0 m · 16 above ground, 2 below

Gross floor area32 555 m²

Site4 370 m² · 59% coverage

No render released for publication

Saudi Arabia · Mixed-use

Mixed-use building, KSA

Concept design

Twenty floors on an 8 550 m² site, but only 16% of it built on — the rest is landscape. That ratio is the project: density delivered vertically so the ground stays open, rather than spread until nothing is left of the site.

Height86.5 m · 20 above ground, 2 below

Gross floor area13 200 m²

Landscape3 800 m² · 44% of site

Occupancy≈850 people

Mountain sitelocation · Hospitality

ARTIFEX Resort

Own development

A mountain resort planned as a whole settlement rather than a hotel: terraced villages, standalone villas, a cable car, a leisure spine and the arrival sequence that ties them together. It is the practice designing for itself, which means every operating cost lands on the same balance sheet as the design decision.

TypeResort and leisure development

RoleClient and designer

StatusIn designstage

Tashkentlocation · Civic

Administrative building

Design stage

A civic building wrapped in an arched perforated screen — the traditional panjara read at building scale. The screen is not decoration: it carries the solar load on the long elevations so the glazing behind it can stay open to daylight.

TypeAdministrative and civic

StatusDesignstage

Tashkentlocation · Mixed-use

HBR — multifunctional complex

Concept

Offices, retail, residence and a planted roof terrace stacked on one plot. The programme is mixed deliberately: each use pays for a different hour of the day, so the building is never empty and never entirely full.

TypeMixed-use complex

StatusConceptstage

Uzbekistan · Education

Al-Khorezmi Presidential School

Designed & managed by ARTIFEX

An 8-hectare educational campus conceived as a new model of international-standard schooling. The concept was presented at head-of-state level and approved.

Scale8 hectares

RoleFull design & project management

StatusApproved concept

Tashkent · Education

Westminster International School

Concept executed with minimal change

A campus whose plan takes the tulip as its organising form. Commissioned as an international school and delivered close to the original concept — rare at this scale.

TypeInternational school campus

RoleChief project architect

ReferenceConsilium Education letter, 2018

Tashkent · Residential

French House

Built · photographed

A business-class residential building of sixteen apartments in a classical idiom, delivered with full interior finishing in twelve months.

Units16 apartments

Programme12 months to handover

StatusCompleted

Shymkent, Kazakhstan · Urban

Koshkar-Ata Riverwalk

Presented at head-of-state level

An urban transformation concept for a river frontage — public realm, phasing and development lots treated as one system rather than a decorated embankment.

TypeRiverfront masterplan

RoleChief project architect

StatusConcept, presented

Tashkent · Urban

Tashkent City — centre concept

Early concept contribution

An 80-hectare centre concept forming an early step in the design of the district. ARTIFEX contributed concept work and visualisation at the formative stage.

Scale80 hectares

RoleConcept contribution

StatusConcept stage

Tashkent · Urban

Luxury Waterfront Street

Concept

A conceptual design turning a neglected watercourse in central Tashkent into a street — retail and public space along a frontage the city had turned its back on. The water is the reason the street exists, not a view sold from behind glass.

TypeRetail and public promenade

RoleConceptual design

StatusConcept

Uzbekistan · Leisure

Leisure Park

Presented at head-of-state level

A ten-hectare retail and entertainment cluster with indoor pavilions — a new recreation typology for the capital.

Scale10 hectares

TypeRetail & entertainment

StatusConcept, presented

Astana, Kazakhstan · Leisure

Covered Beach — Expo 2017

Competition entry

An indoor beach of 4 000 m² with an eight-metre clear height, answering a northern climate with a year-round leisure interior.

Area4 000 m²

Height8 m clear

StatusCompetition

Tashkent · Commercial

BM Tower

Design stage

A business centre in central Tashkent, planned around efficiency of floorplate and a restrained, durable envelope.

TypeBusiness centre

RoleArchitecture & façade

StatusDesign

Almaty, Kazakhstan · Commercial

Canyon Mall

Concept

A commercial centre shaped as a mountain canyon — circulation borrowed from a landscape rather than from a retail diagram.

TypeShopping centre

IdeaLandscape-derived circulation

StatusConcept

No render released for publication

Uzbekistan · Mixed-use

Innovation & Technology Hub

Concept

A place to connect, create and grow — programmed as a working ecosystem rather than an office block with a label on it.

TypeInnovation campus

StatusConcept

Project descriptions and figures are drawn from the ARTIFEX GROUP company profile. Where a figure has not yet been re-verified against contract records it is being checked before it appears in any commercial proposal. Confidential and unbuilt client work is excluded entirely.