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Toh Shimazaki Architecture, London
 www.t-sa.co.uk
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 Toh Shimazaki Architecture was founded in London in 1995 by the architects Yuli Toh (*1961) and Takero Shimazaki (*1971). Yuli Toh studied at Bristol and Edinburgh and worked for the Richard Rogers Partnership 1988-95. Takero Shimazaki studied at the University of Wales, Cardiff and The Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He has worked for the practices of Itsuko Hasegawa Atelier and the Richard Rogers Partnership and is currently a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture, University of East London and TU Graz, Austria. Toh Shimazaki is supported by the engineers Buro Happold’s, John Noel (*1979) and Franck Robert (*1971).
Together they focus on intricate and context responsive solutions to create uncommon places that enrich the lives of the inhabitants.
The installation in the exhibition is inspired by the mechanical architecture and aesthetics of the collieries, combining its own expressive power with that of its surroundings. It creates a new architecture that utilises the impressions of what already exists. The permeable form made of layered plywood boards assumes a ghostly presence that acts like a reminder of the machines that once stood here. Inside it offers three secluded rooms in which projects by the architecture office of Toh Shimazaki are presented. Alignments, porosity, density, direction, depth and distortion become part of the architectural language of the installation.
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