ORU Sutton has been shortlisted for the RIBA Reinvention Award 2026 which recognises achievement in the creative re-use of existing buildings through transformative projects. Oru Sutton is a re-use project within a former BHS high street warehouse completed in collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio.
We would like to thank the RIBA judges, Oru, SCS team, and all the consultants.
Photography by Anton Gorlenko
ORU Sutton has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize 2026, recognising Maija Viksne as Project Architect for Samuel Chisholm Studio.
Oru Sutton is a re-use project within a former BHS high street warehouse completed in collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio.
We would like to thank the RIBA judges, Oru, SCS team, and all the consultants.
Photography by Anton Gorlenko
ORU Sutton has received an RIBA London Award for 2026. Oru Sutton is a re-use project within a former BHS high street warehouse completed in collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio.
We would like to thank the judges, our collaborators and our client.
Read RIBA article by the judges
Photography by ORU Space
Niwa House features in a special issue of A+U focussing on residential projects in London edited by Andrew Clancy and Marwa el Mubark.
Takero Shimazaki has been invited to speak as part of the Kingston School of Art’s lecture series, Kingston Register.
Takero Shimazaki has been invited to speak as part of the Garden Variety talk series curated and hosted by Vokes and Peters.
A lecture by Cécile David and Paolo Emilio Pisano exploring what to do with what we already have through recently completed projects Niwa House, Rouse Gardens and Beulah Hill.
Photography by Anton Gorlenko
Oru Sutton has been shortlisted for an RIBA London Award 2026 and highly commended by the judges of the RIBAJ MacEwen Award 2026 celebrating architecture for the common good. Oru Sutton is a re-use project within a former BHS high street warehouse completed in collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio.
Photography by Bianca Jagger
Oru Sutton has been shortlisted for the MacEwen Award 2026 celebrating architecture for the common good. Oru Sutton is a re-use project completed in collaboration with Samuel Chisholm Studio.
Photography by Anton Gorlenko
New Year Print 2026 – Elevation Study for The Yard Theatre Renewal
Niwa House Wins Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year
Project Architects Cécile David and Paolo Emilio Pisano with the award and the hand made ceramic tile by Caroline Cole.
Niwa House has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2025.
We would like to send special thanks to our clients, collaborators and the design team.
t-sa team: Cécile David, Paolo Emilio Pisano, Takero Shimazaki
Contractor: New Wave London
Structural and Environmental Engineer: Webb Yates
Landscape Designer: Rich Landscapes
Interior Designer: Covet Noir
Cost Consultant: Box Associates
AV Consultant: Pyramid
Photography by Felix Koch
Niwa House shortlisted for the Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year as part of the AJ Architecture Awards 2025.
t-sa team: Cécile David, Paolo Emilio Pisano, Takero Shimazaki
Photography by Anton Gorlenko
Niwa House has received an RIBA National Award for 2025.
We would like to thank the judges, our collaborators and our client.
See the RIBA announcement and read the RIBA article by the judges
Photography by Felix Koch
Takero Shimazaki joins a panel discussion hosted by The University of Cambridge Architecture Society (ARCSOC) as part of the University of Cambridge Architecture End-Of-Year Show
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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
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.
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
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
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
Curzon Camden featured by Architecture Today
Photography by David Grandorge
Curzon Camden Cinema featured in AJ Specification May 2022: Walls, ceilings and partitions
Drawing by Takero Shimazaki
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
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
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