t-sa news
20.06.10 - Royal Academy of Arts
Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum Mini transformed the Sackler Galleries with an installation collaborating with families who created full scale openings on the walls. The event was the Royal Academy’s contribution to the London Festival of Architecture 2010.
17.06.10 - Silver Pigeon Award - The British Council
Yuli Toh was on the judging panel awarding the inaugural Silver Pigeon Award of the International Architecture Showcase together with jury members Dyckhoff (The Times), Ichioka (Architecture Foundation), Ince (Barbican), Lomax (Arts Council), Earp (Land Securities), Richardson (British Council) and Slessor (AR). Click here
for Vicky Richardson’s Blueprint blog.
15.06.10 - Church re-use
t-sa are collaborating with Church Commissioners on proposals for the sensitive re-use of a 19th century church, which will become a gallery and workshop for a joiner craftsman.
03.06.10 - Fusing architecture and environment
Confort, a Japanese journal has published a 10-page feature on t-sa's work, written by Souhei Imamura and Yoshi Uchiyama with photography by Katsuhisa Kida. The article celebrates t-sa's methodology that collages architecture with its environment. For the full article click here.
14.05.10 - t-sa featured in 'The Architecture of Hope'
t-sa's Healthcare projects at York, Birmingham and Leeds have been featured in a new book entitled 'The Architecture of Hope - Maggie Centre Caring Centres' by Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote.
30.04.10 - On the drawing board
t-sa are working on concept proposals for a showcasing pavilion in London. A series of intersecting volumes is evolving from the surrounding landscape and the movement of the visitors.
08.04.10 - t-sa forum Tokyo Exhibition
t-sa forum Tokyo began on 29th March and will complete on 9th April. Focusing on the theme 'Adaptable Structures & Tactile Details', the participants have investigated and designed for the Nanyodo Architectural Bookshop in Jimbocho, Tokyo. An exhibition of work opened for two weeks from 12th April. For more information click here. Also see architecturephoto.net.
18.03.10 - Bassett Road house occupied
We helped create a large and light, single level home for a playwright and his family. A new workshop looks out to a writers hut nestled in the garden, with openings carved in beautiful wood with a craftsman joiner.
01.03.10 - Yuli Toh elected to AfH
Yuli Toh is elected to the role of Secretary of Architects for Health - RIBA linked society. As a principal on the Executive Committee, together with the Chair, she will be a key liaison with the RIBA and contact for society development.
23.02.10 - Talk at Chelsea College of Art and Design
Takero presented the work of the practice focusing on the design and the construction process of OSh House and Centre For Sight. The talk was titled, ‘Small things we focus on in our day to day’ Slides included drawings, sketches, collages, site images, influences, models, photographs and t-sa forum activities.
17.02.10 - Forum Book on sale in Tokyo and London
The Forum Book vol. 2 & 3 are now available in Tokyo at the Nanyodo and GA Gallery bookshop, also in London at AA and RIBA bookshop.
11.02.10 - Tombo Japanese deli opens
A new Japanese deli with truly authentic food and tea is now open in South Kensington. t-sa were fortunate to have worked with the owners, who were meticulous in their attention to detail in every aspect of the project.For more information click tombo.
25.01.10 - Lambeth return
Takero recently had an opportunity to re-visit Lambeth road. The clients are now fully settled and are enjoying the house displaying many of their collected objects from around the world throughout the house.
04.01.10 - Forum Book Vol. 3 now on sale
The Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum Book Vol. 3 is now available. The book features students' work alongside lectures and workshops by David Phillips, Ana Araujo, Guy Hunt, Willem De Bruijn, Adrian Friend, Anna Mansfield and Takero Shimazaki. The book is available direct from the practice priced at £15 + p&p.
14.12.09 - 'Centre for Sight, Sussex' - Domus
The December issue of Domus features an article of Centre for Sight, written by Jay Merrick. Within the article he celebrates the design by describing how "the building expresses the rural vernacular so powerfully in outline and plan that it flips into an otherness." See 'press' to read the full article.
07.12.09 - '25 who will change architecture and design in 2010' - Blueprint
The December issue of Blueprint features t-sa forum's plans for 2010, including a two-week workshop in Japan and a series of additional workshops. The article also covers t-sa forum mini for 6-12 year olds. See press for full article.
11.11.09 - Planning Approval - Wandsworth house
Planning approval has been granted for a residential property in South London. The proposal maximises the width of the living space and celebrates the relationship of the family dining areas with the garden.
06.11.09 - 10th Big Draw!
t-sa contributed to The Campaign for Drawing for an afternoon to encourage the public around Southwark Cathedral to participate in drawing workshops. There were several exercises designed to make us more aware of the spaces and objects we are drawing, and not necessarily the canvas we are drawing on.
26.10.09 - Toh Shimazaki contributes to 10th Big Draw!
t-sa will be contributing to the Festival of Drawing on Friday 30 October at Southwark Cathedral. The Drawn to Bankside festival offers everyone the chance to discover, or indulge their own creative skills by joining sketching, painting and sculpture workshops at a range of Bankside venues. For further information 'click here'
01.10.09 - Forum Book now on sale in Stockholm
The second Toh Shimazaki Forum Book is now on sale in Stockholm at the Konst-ig bookshop 'click here' and Dublin at the RIAI bookshop and the Winding Stair bookshop. The book features essays by Takero Shimazaki, Graham Haworth, Patrick Lynch, Souhei Imamura and Kumiko Inui.
09.09.09 - Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum 09
This summer’s t-sa forum workshop had investigated the theme of ‘Adaptable Structures’, focusing on rigorous architectural systems that adapt to ‘incidents’ that occur during the design process. A book compiling these ideas will be published shortly.
03.08.09 - BD Architect of the Year Shortlist
Toh Shimazaki Architecture have been shortlisted for 'BD Healthcare Architect of the Year 2009'. Other shortlisted architects for this category are Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Nightingale Associates, Penoyre & Prasad, and Reiach & Hall Architects. The winner will be announced at a dinner on 5th November.
23.07.09 - Centre for Sight nearing completion
Centre for Sight is now nearing completion. It is a new private eye clinic, with two state of the art theatres and consulting and diagnostic rooms.
15.07.09 - Planning Approval - Curtain Road
Planning permission granted for a new 8 storey, mixed use, glazed brick and dark bronze curtain wall building.
11.07.09 - Forum Mini has started
02.07.09 - OSh House Tour for The Architectural Club
The Architecture Club has chosen to visit OSh House as part of their tour this year that also included Copse Hill and DSDHA’s Pond Meadow School.
15.06.09 - St James's Hospital completes
Leeds St James’s Hospital refurbishment and extension has been completed. The new main entrance, made from York stone, allows light into opened-up areas of the building with new timber walls.
03.06.09 - Toh Shimazaki on tour with Palladio
t-sa contributed to the Royal Academy's exhibition, 'Andrea Palladio: Through the eyes of the contemporary architects'. Following the successful show in London, the exhibition is on tour in Barcelona and Madrid. Click here for further details.
01.06.09 - Planning Approval - Blackhall Barns
Planning approval has been granted for a masterplan to the private property. This includes a new gymnasium pavilion that will sit within the landscape.
01.04.09 - Richmond House completes
A new large extension creates a series of interconnected spaces and levels of distinct atmospheres.
11.02.09 - Forum Book on sale now!
The second book from the Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum is available to buy now from the RIBA bookshop or direct from the practice priced £20. The book features the work of students from the 2007 workshop alongside essays by Takero Shimazaki, Graham Haworth, Patrick Lynch, Souhei Imamura and Kumiko Inui. Contact Simon Davison for further details.
09.02.09 - Yuli Toh speaks at the Royal Academy
Yuli Toh participated in a public event at the Royal Academy of Arts, speaking on the
'Pleasure of Patronage' alongside Roger Zogolovich and Guido Beltramini.
Click here to read Amanda Baillieu's response to the evening on BD online.
31.01.09 - Toh Shimazaki at the Royal Academy
t-sa have contributed to the Royal Academy's exhibition, 'Andrea Palladio: Through the Eyes of Contemporary Architects'.
Click here for further details.
15.12.08 - Ceri Williams in Wallpaper*
Toh Shimazaki Architectural Assistant Ceri Williams' university work is featured in Wallpaper* Magazine's 2009 directory of the best international design graduates.
Click here to read the full article.
03.12.08 - New Associate
We are pleased to announce that as of November 2008 Tomoyo Arimoto has been made an associate of Toh Shimazaki Architecture.
28.11.08 - t-sa forum Book Out Soon!
The book, featuring the works of last year's forum students and essays by participating architects and artists, will be available to buy very soon.
Contact Simon Davison for details
27.11.08 - Planning Approval - Basset Road
Planning approval has been granted on this project to renovate and extend a house in west London. The team are detailing ready to go to site in spring 2009.
20.11.08 - Planning Approval - Centre for Sight, Oxshott
Planning approval has been granted for this new eye surgery in the village of Oxshott, Surrey. The project features ambitious brick patterning and articulation, a continuation of the concept developed for the main Centre for Sight surgical facility in East Grinstead.
18.11.08 - Planning Approval - Thorn Farm
Planning approval has been granted for this project to restore and make extensive additions to a seventeenth century, grade two listed farm house in rural Worcestershire.
05.11.08 - HATCH The new architectural generation
Toh Shimazaki are profiled in Kieran Long's new book.
31.10.08 - Halloween Office Trip
The practice travelled to Bad Karlshafen, home of the Brothers Grimm, to visit the Smithson's Hexenhaus (The Witch's House) and the TECTA furniture factory, returning to London via Cologne to see Peter Zumthor's Kolumba Museum.
30.10.08 - BD Architect of the Year Awards
The practice received a special mention in the Healthcare category for our 'careful and subtle schemes' at Leeds St James's Hospital and the Centre for Sight.
Click here to see the article on BD online.
29.10.08 - Cyprus Project
t-sa are working on the masterplan for this 150,000sqm resort complex in nothern Cyprus.
10th September 2008 - Lecture at the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation
Takero presented the practice's projects to clients, guests and Forum students in a lecture at the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation
9th September 2008 - BD Healthcare Award
We are delighted to announce that the practice has been shortlisted for the BD Healthcare Architect of the Year Award.
24.06.08 - London Festival of Architecture Exhibition
Students from the Toh Shimazaki Architecture Forum exhibit their work at the Embassy of Japan from 24th June - 18th July 2008.
18.02.08 - Exhibition at Buro Happold head office
The practice was invited to exhibit its work as a part of Buro Happolod's 'Architecture: Where To?' exhibition series
November 2007 - New Associate
We are pleased to announce that as of November 2007 Anna Mansfield has been made an associate of Toh Shimazaki Architecture.
14.12.07 - t-sa Christmas 2007
The team took a trip to Cambridge to visit Kettles Yard House and Gallery and Dixon Jones' library building at Darwin College.
16.11.07 - Centre for Sight Ceremony
Practice members joined the Client's family and representatives of the contractors, JCL, for a ceremony to bless the site prior to the commencement of construction.
03.10.07 - London Rowing Club Opening
Phase One and Two of the development of London Rowing Club have been completed. It was officially opened by Diana M Ellis CBE, the chairman of the Amateur Rowing Association on the 3rd of October.
29.09.2007 - Macclesfield Medical Centre Completion.
The Assura Medical Centre in Macclesfield was completed. A curved timber wall wraps the consultation rooms. Fabric walls are by fashion designer mina perhonen.
21.09.07 - t-sa Trip
The team recently made an architectural trip to the west coast of Scotland, highlights included Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House, Helensburgh and The Glasgow School of Art (pictured).
25.04.07 - t-sa Forum Book now on sale
The t-sa Forum Book is now on sale. The book features the work of last year's Forum participants. You can buy a copy from the RIBA Bookshop or to buy directly from Toh Shimazaki please email Kirsty Taylor at: forum@t-sa.co.uk
12.04.07 - Architects Journal
Toh Shimazaki were a cover feature in April's Architects' Journal. Visit our press section to read the full article.
12.04.07 - t-sa forum 2007 - WELCOMES ENTRIES!
The Toh Shimazaki Architecture forum is a workshop that exists alongside the t-sa practice. Its aim is to bring the academic environment and professional practice closer by uniting the two activities. It runs from 01.08.07 - 07.09.07. For this years brief and details please contact Kirsty Taylor at:
forum@t-sa.co.uk
or download an application form
download a brochure
download a poster
13.03.07 - t-sa plans Gormley retrospective
t-sa are working for the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre on the Anthony Gormley 'Event Horizon', a major retrospective opening August 2007.
09.02.07 - OSh house award
'OSh House' has been shortlisted to the last six, for the World Architecture News House of The Year 2007.
01.02.07 - New Architectural Assistant (2)
t-sa welcomes Emmanuel Dupont as our new Architectural Assistant.
25.01.07 - Takero Shimazaki, Diversity Lecture
Takero Shimazaki gave a lecture at Birmingham Architectural Association, on OSh House.
24.01.07 - New admin/team support
t-sa welcomes a new member to the team. Kirsty Taylor who is our admin/team support.
11.01.07 - New Architectural Assistant (1)
t-sa welcomes Yasu Terada as our new Architectural Assistant
15.12.06 - t-sa visit to OSh house
t-sa visited OSh House after its completion in December.
12.12.06 - OSh house completion
OSh House has been completed.
01.12.06 - Lambeth Road extension completed
Our glazed extension to a Grade II listed Georgian terrace in Lambeth Road has been completed.
27.09.06 - Lambeth Road
A refurbishment project in Lambeth is near completion.
01.09.06 - Mixed use scheme, Finchley
t-sa are working on a 11 storey Mixed Use Development scheme in North London.
25.08.06 - Uncommon Solutions
t-sa's Uncommon Solutions pavilion opened as part of Talking Cities exhibition, Entry 2006 in Essen,Germany.
18.08.06 - t-sa forum crit
2nd week crits with Adam Cowley,Ana Araujo and David Philips took place at Morley College, Lambeth.
10.08.06 - t-sa forum, David Philips Lecture
David Philips gave a lecture on 'Brick' at t-sa. This inspirational lecture covered the use of this material from Roman, Georgian, Victorian times through to Dieste, Lewerenz, Schwartz with details.
06.08.06 - t-sa Forum, Sergison Bates Visit
t-sa forum visited Sergison Bates' studios. Jonathan Sergison kindly showed us their latest projects and the process of their work.
04.08.06 - t-sa forum, Patrick Lynch Lecture
Patrick Lynch gave a lecture at t-sa forum to the students and t-sa members on Marsh View, Lynch Architects' outstanding project. The evening was a real success ending at 11pm.
04.08.06 - Lynch Architects office Visit
t-sa forum students visited the offices of Lynch Architects. Patrick gave us an insight into his recent projects and gave a talk on context.
01.08.06 - Pondwicks Close
A Re-modelling of a house in St.Albans has now been completed. The intricate joinery items including the staircase and the glazed screens throughout the house are the result of a collaboration with architect Lorenzo Wong of A & P Smithson Architects.
01.08.06 - Kensington Place
A house in Kensington Place has now been completed. Further photographs will be taken soon.
12.07.06 - Macclesfield
t-sa's project for a private health centre in Macclesfield has now commenced on site.
06.07.06 - Pecha Kucha Night at Japan Embassy
Takero spoke on 'Shift', an element of t-sa's work at Pecha Kucha Night at The Embassy Japan in London .
14.05.06 - Talking Cities Magazine
Talking Cities magazine was published by Birkhauser, edited by F.Ferguson & Urban Drift. t-sa's 'The Uncommon Solutions' ideas are covered on pages 182-183.
23.04.06 - Japan Embassy Talk
Yuli Toh presented, at the Embassy of Japan in London, a talk with fellow members of Architects for Health. Yuli spoke on the theme of "The Relationship between the Internal and External Environments" presenting images of some of the best examples observed on the tour. The Study Tour in Japan was hosted by the Japanese Institiute of Healthcare Architecture JIHA.
03.03.06 - Osh House Topping Out
Osh house topping out party was organized by the client and JCL, the main contractors for the project.
14.02.06 - Mina Perhonen Visit
28th February 2006
Akira Minagawa and Aoi Nagae of Japanese Fashion/Textile Designers Mina Perhonen visited the Osh House site. They are currently working with t-sa to install their fabrics as part of the internal architecture.
31.12.05 - The Independent Magazine
t-sa featured in The Independent Magazine's 31.12.05 "Talent Special: The Faces To Watch In 2006" by Jay Merrick. The article mentions The Open and Shut (Osh) House that will be completed this year.
24.09.05 - Open & Shut House
Open & Shut House project commences work on site.
25.09.07 - Gloucester Mews West Completion
Completed in late September, this new build three-storey mews house was built on a 3.5m wide gap site in Paddington.