Takero Shimazaki Architects

Niwa House has received an RIBA London Award for 2025.

We would like to thank the judges, our collaborators and our client.

Read RIBA article by the judges

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

A house re-model, additions and a garden

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Takero Shimazaki and Jonathan Mortlock join speakers for the Cedric Price Thinkbelt touring Exhibition, supported by RIBA London, London Metropolitan University and the University of Westminster

Read about the event here

Takero Shimazaki speaks to Royal Academy of Dance for the Why Dance Matters Podcast.

Listen here

Photography by Siobhan Hennessy

‘In South London, a new co-working and wellness space paves the way for a high street’s regeneration and serves as an example of circular design principles in practice’ Architecture Today

Read the full article here

In collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Niwa House, London.

Winner of the Structural Timber Awards 2024

Shortlisted for the AR House Awards 2024

Highly Commended at the Wood Awards 2024

Shortlisted for the Structural Awards 2024

Photography by Felix Koch

New Year Print 2025 – Courtyards and Gardens at Niwa House.

Sutton, Oru Space Phase 1 is complete. A collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio, Oru and Sutton Council, the project transformed existing disused building into Workspace, Hospitality, Wellbeing, Community Gardens and a Town Hall.

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

t-sa celebrates the launch of ‘Here We Are, Home At Last: The Architecture of Nithurst’ by Adam Richards with contributions from Takero Shimazaki, Corinna Dean, Jeremy Musson, Geoff Dyer and Claire Curtis with photography by Brotherton Lock. The book was designed by Studio Christopher Victor and published by Lund Humphries.

Read more here.

The Royal Academy of Dance has received an RIBA National Award for 2024.

We would like to thank the judges, our collaborators and our wonderful client team at Royal Academy of Dance.

Read RIBA article by the judges

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Authors Stephen Bates and Fernando Villavecchia in conversation with David Grandorge and Irénée Scalbert. Chaired by Takero Shimazaki.

The Royal Academy of Dance has received an RIBA London Award 2024.

Photography by David Grandorge

Shakespeare Tower has received an RIBA London Award 2024.

Photography by Felix Koch.

Timber and Stone structure house is now complete.

Photography by Felix Koch

Takero Shimazaki attends Atelier Flores & Prats’ midterm review as a guest critic at the Accademia di Archittetura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Lecture – AAI, Dublin

The Architectural Association of Ireland hosts Jennifer Frewen for a discussion on t-sa’s practice methodology. The lecture is in collaboration with Laura O’Brien of James Gorst Architects.

Read more here.

Image for the Royal Academy of Dance by Joshua King

Jennifer Frewen has been awarded the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2024. The award recognises an expansive body of work realised at t-sa spanning over 10 years including the recent completion of the Royal Academy of Dance.

Photography by Sandra LaRochelle and David Grandorge

Read more in the Architectural Review and Architects Journal.

Takero Shimazaki speaks to Matthew Blunderfield for the Scaffold podcast in partnership with the Architecture Foundation.

Listen to the episode here

Jennifer Frewen has been shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice as part of the W Awards. The award recognises her body of work in practice at t-sa with a focus on the Royal Academy of Dance.

Photography by Felix Koch

New Year Print 2024 – Streets and Plazas, Royal Academy of Dance

t-sa is looking for a Studio Manager to join its team in London on a part time basis.

Read job description here.

Photography by Oli Brenner

Lecture – Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan

Image by Oliver Reynolds and Nial Brimacombe

Photography by David Grandorge

t-sa have been shortlisted for the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 for Curzon Camden Cinema. The nomination recognises the work of Joshua King as an emerging project architect.

Drawing by Joshua King

Diploma Unit 8 student work in London Metropolitan University Summer Exhibition. This year, the unit taught by t-sa researched the idea of ‘space-between’ in reuse of existing buildings in Hackney Wick, through Japanese notions of Yohaku and Ma.

Photography by Jonathan Mortlock

A drawing for a new theatre in Hackney Wick has been selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023.

This years Architecture Room curated by Royal Academician Peter Barber focuses on work that is ‘analogue, crafted, hand-made…’

The Summer Exhibition is open from 13 June to 20 August 2023

Drawing by Takero Shimazaki

Curzon Camden Cinema featured in South Korean Architecture & Culture Magazine’s May 2023 edition on ‘Renewed Space’.

Read full article.

Curzon Camden Cinema has received an RIBA London Award 2023.

We would like to thank the judging panel, everyone at Curzon Cinemas, Consultants and Contractor GF Holding.

Photography by David Grandorge

Read RIBA article by the judges

Proposals for a new theatre in Hackney Wick’s Queens Yard

Drawings by Karabo Turner & Oli Brenner

Oliver Reynolds t-sa led Unit 8 diploma project awarded RIBA Silver Medal Commendation.

Now featuring on Building On The Built.

Read more here

Model image by Oliver Reynolds

Christchurch Tower

t-sa, Winter 2022

Photography by Oliver Reynolds

t-sa feature alongside contemporary international Japanese practices in an exhibition exploring local and global approaches to architectural design.

Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen China.

5 November 2022 – 19 February 2023

Read more

A lecture on the history of holiday houses in Sardinia as part of Second Floor, a new series in partnership with the Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS) at London Metropolitan University

Oak glulam structure complete

Photography by Felix Koch

Oak glulam structure complete

Photography by Felix Koch

Oak glulam structure complete

Photography by Felix Koch

This year, Unit 8 will continue to explore the possibilities of architectural design within our current climate crisis, considering how conscious restraint and doing less can re-charge the void, and re-invigorate the space between

Collage by Hiroshi Takahashi. t-sa Forum x AA 2018

New global headquarters completed for Royal Opening

Photography by David Grandorge

Repurposing a former department store in collaboration with

Samuel Chisholm Studio

Drawing by Oli Brenner

Timber construction progressing on site

Photography by Luke Andrew Walker 

Takero Shimazaki speaks to The Modern House and TOAST as part of a collaborative series exploring independent makers

Watch the interview here

Journal article

Cécile David (associate) at t-sa presents design for a house in a talk with Webb Yates Engineers and The Stone Masonry Company as part of the London Festival of Architecture, on the use of composite stone and timber structure for a sustainable construction future

Drawing by Paolo Emilio Pisano

Read about the event here

Curzon Camden featured by Divisare

Photography by David Grandorge

Read article here

Curzon Camden featured by Architecture Today

Photography by David Grandorge

Read article here

Curzon Camden Cinema featured in AJ Specification May 2022: Walls, ceilings and partitions

Drawing by Takero Shimazaki

Read online here

Curzon Camden Cinema has completed and opened

Photography by David Grandorge

A lecture on the work of Berthold Lubetkin as part of Second Floor, a new series in partnership with the Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS) at London Metropolitan University and recorded by the Architecture Foundation

Watch in full here

A lecture on the work of Japanese architect Seiichi Shirai as part of Second Floor, a new series in partnership with the Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS) at London Metropolitan University and recorded by the Architecture Foundation

Watch in full here

Curzon Camden Cinema

Read in full here

Read more about Prewetts Mill here

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Everything: Photographs by @T_Fretton

23 October – 28 November 2021 at Betts Project

Projects of re-use and renewal at Princelet Street and The Old Truman Brewery Truman’s Brewery Survey Elevation by Oli Brenner

Read the full article here

Photography by Takero Shimazaki

t-sa completes the refurbishment of an old Victorian school for a new nursery

Photography by Jennifer Frewen

Photography by Jennifer Frewen

A drawing for a new theatre in Hackney Wick, London

t-sa’s re-working of the facade and common spaces for new housing development complete.

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

t-sa are working with The Royal Academy of Dance on their new headquarters building in Battersea, London

Drawing by Joshua King

Models (by Drew Hopper and Edem Torsutse) exhibited at deSingel, Antwerp by t-sa led Diploma Unit 8 students from the CASS School of Architecture.

Thank you to architecten de vylder vinck taillieu and Philip Christou

Photography by Amal Choaie

A Happy New Year from all at t-sa

Facade and public realm for 59 new apartments within a historic flour mill and adjoining structures complete

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

t-sa merges Japanese architectural language with the iconic spaces of the Barbican

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Students’ work by Takero Shimazaki and Summer Islam’s Diploma Unit 8 at The CASS, Aldgate

Photography by Cosmin Chirpac

Students’ work by Takero Shimazaki and Summer Islam’s Diploma Unit 8 explored the notion of public halls in Stoke on Trent

Photography by Cosmin Chirpac

Students’ work by Takero Shimazaki and Summer Islam’s Diploma Unit 8 explored ‘both-and’ 1:5 construction details

Photography by Cosmin Chirpac

t-sa invites you to join us at the AA Bookshop for the launch of a new publication documenting the work of 2018’s t-sa forum workshop, dedicated to the memory of Professor Florian Beigel

t-sa’s new timber inspired apartment within Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s Grade II listed Barbican Centre is nearing completion

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

A Happy New Year from all at t-sa. This year’s print features our recently completed House T

t-sa’s House T is the cover feature in RIBA Journal’s January edition. Find out more here or see our selected publications

Our limited edition book, t-sa forum vol.8 ‘Renewal-Measurement’, including writing from Prof. Jonathan Hill, Pierre d’Avoine and Charles Holland has now been published. Buy online from the AA Bookshop or contact mail@t-sa.co.uk for further details

1:5 Detail models of ‘Both-And’ features in Stoke-on-Trent

A conversion of a derelict Victorian Dairy completed in South London

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

A new build concrete house in North London has recently been completed

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

A transcript between David Levitt and Takero discussing a 2017 screening of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film ‘The Passen-gers’ at Curzon Bloomsbury has been published

Takero and Summer Islam’s Unit 8 students works exploring the theme of theatricality in cities featured in The Cass Summer Show

22 June – 5 July 2018

Calcutta House, Old Castle Street,  E1 7NT

Takero will be taking part in Henley Halebrown’s Dialogues series opposite Nicholas Lobo Brennan of APPARATA, discussing t-sa’s recent works in a presentation entitled ‘Architecture of Renewal, Continuity and Autonomy’

Construction is ongoing on dormers, brickwork repair and preparation for larch cladding

Photography by Jennifer Frewen

Renewal housing project, West Sussex. Planning approval was granted in February 2017 to convert an old Mill and office building to 59 new apartments with the addition of a new roof, dormers and clerestory

Drawing by Siong Wang

A new wall and an extended living space were added to the rear of a house, re-organising the internal rooms and creating a new loggia. Featured online in Architects’ Journal and Architecture Today

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

A Happy New Year from all at t-sa. This year’s print features a geometric study for a new Flower Kiosk on Bond Street

Between Order and Feeling

Takero Shimazaki gave a talk discussing t-sa’s recent projects as part of 57°10 Society’s lecture series on 23.11.17

Planning approval granted for an additional two storeys at London Road, an office to residential conversion scheme completed by t-sa in May 2016

Drawing by Siong Wang

Ongoing construction works in Chichester for our new build CLT frame house with Catja de Haas architect

Photography by Takero Shimazaki

Proposals

Between Worlds

by Lucinda Smith

Proposals

Sequencing

by Taisuke Mizuno

Proposals

Folly

by Robert Hamilton

t-sa forum celebrates the publication of our latest book, ‘Vol. 7 Renewal – Structure’, compiling students research from t-sa forum workshop 2016. Available to buy from AA Bookshop.

Book Launch

13.09.2017 at 18:30

Architectural Association – Front Members Room

36 Bedford Square

The arched concrete structure cast on site for a private house in North London

t-sa congratulates team member Paolo Emilio Pisano for being awarded a RIBA Bronze Medal Commendation for his work at the Architectural Association School of Architecture

Drawing by Paolo Emilio Pisano

Happy New Year from t-sa. A new Loggia for a house in Surrey is the inspiration for this year’s print

t-sa wins a design competition for a 55 unit renewal housing project in West Sussex

Drawing by Siong Wang

Mark Campbell speaks about his collection of photographs to Diploma Unit 8 students at the CASS, London Met.

Indoor Swimming Pool, Grossinger’s Catskills Resort Hotel, Liberty, New York, November 2013

Our collaborative new build house project with Catja de Haas architect in Sussex has received planning permission and works will be on site in 2016

London Road Housing Phase 1 is now complete. It is a prior approval conversion of an existing office block into a new 79 unit residential scheme

Takero Shimazaki will be in dialogue about the influences of Andrei Tarkovsky for the design of Curzon Bloomsbury at the opening of a major new retrospective of the director on the 20th May 6pm

t-sa win Refurbishment Architect of the Year Award. We would like to thank our clients, consultants and the judges for this wonderful acknowledgment

Photography by Hélène Binet

t-sa are shortlisted for Building Design Architect of the Year Award 2016 – Refurbishment Architect of the Year for renewal of Curzon Bloomsbury, Leicester Print Workshop, Dean Street and London Road Housing

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

Modernist apartment re-invention in North London

A new build house project in the south coast landscape with Catja de Haas

t-sa’s Curzon Bloomsbury is in this month’s AR magazine feature on Cinemas

Takero Shimazaki hosted RIBA’s own internal team for a tour of completed Curzon Bloomsbury

A Happy New Year from all at t-sa. This year’s print features the completed Leicester Print Workshop

Planning Approval granted for a new house in North London

Cast plaster model of an external wall in Canterbury

Takero Shimazaki will give a lecture on t-sa’s work and its design method through the theme of Renewal-Emotion. It is part of a week-long workshop by t-sa for the Japanese University in the UK

Takero Shimazaki is in round table discussion with Director Mary McGuckian and Zeev Aram following the screening of ‘The Price of Desire’ and ‘Gray Matters’ on the 16th November.

New printmaking artist studios, education rooms, gallery and library spaces are nearing completion in the heart of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. The official opening will take place the first week of November

Photography by Anton Gorlenko

‘A new loggia’.

Planning approval has been granted for an extension and alterations to a house in Surrey. The idea for the renewal of this house is to add a single wall to the garden side of the house to create a cloister-like loggia; – a large single garden space for leisure, dining and living accessed from the interior of the main body of the house.

Construction works are ongoing at LPW in Leicester. The existing warehouse building has been stripped down to the walls and floors with a new roof added. The ‘scars’ of the past have been filled with new materials and existing steel structures and crane beams are retained to highlight the timeline of the building and its historical use. Completion is due in Autumn 2015.

Planning approval has been gained for 79 apartments and complete renewal of an existing office building in Sutton, South of London. Existing materials are re-used to express tactility and texture. The waffled concrete ceiling structure will be partly exposed, together with the decorated brickwork on the facade and the concrete staircase.

A conversion of a flat into a two-storey maisonette in North London is now complete with a new feature black staircase.

A three-storey cinema in the Brunswick Centre reaches completion

Coming soon

A contractor has been selected and construction will begin in April for the ‘Our Big Move’ project

This year’s print is inspired by the staircase model for Wrottesley Road by Anton Gorlenko and Pepper Akane Yamamoto Simpson

New print studios and gallery are forming part of a warehouse conversion in Leicester’s cultural quarter

An enclosing wall to create a new garden space – house renovation in Surrey, UK

Renewal of a derelict office building into micro housing in South London

Its solidity gives a sort of presence you can’t ignore…..PS

An internal view for new studio space in Amersham

A new working environment from home – an internal stair

Ground floor works begin on the renovation of the Renoir cinema at The Brunswick for Curzon.

Building materials have a presence that transcend beyond style or a certain period in history. Some materials and buildings last so much longer than the generations of its inhabitants. But most of all, these materials evoke certain emotion, memory and atmosphere – TS

A new build house in the landscape, Stockport UK

An anchoring masonry well excavated to locate the house in an open farm land

A happy new year! t-sa’s new year print on tissue paper. Image by Takuma Okada, a t-sa forum 2013 participant – a hand print