Hayatsu Architects

April 2024

Takeshi is one of the speakers at Architecture on Stage: Habitats on 24th April at Barbican Centre. The event is organised by Architecture Foundation.

March 2025

We designed the exhibition scenography in collaboration with the graphic design studio Stinsensqueeze and the clay artist Lyson Marchessault for the forthcoming exhibition ‘Art Without Heroes: Mingei’ at William Morris Gallery.

December 2023

Art without Heroes: Mingei opens at William Morris Gallery on 23 March 2024.

October 2023

Public lecture ‘Material Anthropology’ on zoom at University of Melbourne on 9th November 2023. You can book here.

October 2023

Making Friends - Takeshi Hayatsu in conversation with Hikaru Nissanke at OMMX is featured in the Swiss published magazine Superposition.

September 2023

Hana Mikoshi installation at Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington opened this month as part of London Design Festival 2023.

August 2023

We are thrilled to be selected in the new framework for the architects panel across Landsec’s retail and hospitality portfolio, which was set to support emerging talent in placemaking.

July 2023

We won the public realm design competition ‘A Gateway to New Malden’ organised by London Festival of Architecture and Kingston Council. It is a collaboration with the young local design and make practice 121 collective, and the emerging landscape designers Hortus Collective. Super excited to start working with the local community and the council to transform the existing roundabout and pocket park.

July 2023

We have moved our office to Stephen Taylor Architects space with a sunny garden at 23-29 De Beauvoir Rd, N1 5SF.

July 2023

Our written contribution to the Architecture Foundation’s Supporter’s Column is online.

June 2023

We are shortlisted for the design competition A Gateway to New Malden, with the local design and make collective 121 collective and the horticultural expert Hortus Collective.

The public exhibition and consultation event organised by London Festival of Architecture and Kingston Council will take place at Kingston Environment Centre in New Malden on Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th June. All welcome.

May 2023

We are looking for a part 1 assistant to join our team. This is an ideal post to gain your experience on all work stages and be exposed to work with inspiring collaborators and clients.

You will need to be good at team working, quick to learn and conscientious. Expected timing for starting is from late June/early July 2023. Principally we work from the studio as we make a lot of physical things. The employment contract is minimum 12 months, and we follow the RIBA guidance for the salary level appropriate to the experience and skills.

Please send your CV and examples of work to takeshi@hayatsuarchitects.com or submit a hard copy to Unit 101 Sugarhouse Studios, 19 Collett Road, London SE16 4DJ.

April 2023

Refurbishment and extension of the former Catford Constitutional Club is now on site with the appointed contractor Claremont for Lewisham Council, bringing the much loved local pub back to life.

February 2023

We are pleased to be selected for the two lots for the GLA’s new framework - Lot 3: High Street and Town Centre Recovery and Transformation (with Madeleine Kessler Architecture), and Lot 4: Landscape, Green Infrastructure and Public Realm.

January 2023

Architecture and Artisan Craft School with Grizedale Arts at The Farmer’s Arms, Cambria in this April. For booking please apply here.

January 2023

Lecture by Takeshi Hayatsu at Oslo Arkitektforening is available to view on vimeo.

December 2022

Thank you to all our friends, supporters, clients, collaborators and families. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

October 2022

We designed the display scenography for Goldwin 0 Fall/Winter 2022 Collection, which was launched worldwide including their shops in Harajuku, Marunouchi, Dover Street Market Ginza, as well as San Francisco, Munich, and Beijing. The design was conceived through a series of enquires - the collaborative work of a multidisciplinary team lead by OK-RM.

Photo by Akira Arai courtesy of Goldwin 0

September 2022

We have completed the extension to the 1952 Walter Segal designed house, known as St Anne’s Close in Highgate, North London.

Photo by Max Creasy

August 2022

Thank you Dezeen for nominating us for three Dezeen Awards 2022 categories: Emerging Architecture Studio of the Year, Installation Design, and Rebirth Project.

July 2022

We are currently on site for artist Peter Doig and his family’s house in North London.

July 2022

The Blue Market Bermondsey is represented in the exhibition ‘community, one architecture aves les habitants - common, community driven architecture’ in arc en rêve centre d’architecture in Bordeaux. Takeshi Hayatsu will be speaking in the event on Friday 16th September 4:30 pm about designing public space in common. Photo by arc en rêve

June 2022

We designed and built a dancing sculpture/pavilion/architecture for Japanese fashion platform Goldwin 0. It is a collaborative project with creative direction OK-RM, choreographer Darcy Wallace, musician Mansur Brown, photographer Daniel Shea and maker Very Very Far Away.

May 2022

Our bronze cast model of Primitive Hut has been chosen for this year’s Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition curated by Niall McLaughlin and artist Rana Begum.

April 2022

We have a vacancy for a part 1 assistant to join our strong team of five. This is an ideal post to gain your experience on all work stages and be exposed to work with inspiring collaborators and clients.

You will need to be good at team working, quick to learn and conscientious. Expected timing for starting is from late June/early July 2022. Principally we work from the studio as we make a lot of physical things.

Please send your CV and examples of work to takeshi@hayatsuarchitects.com or submit a hard copy to Unit 101 Sugarhouse Studios, 19 Collett Road London SE16 4DJ.

March 2022

Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection opened this month at Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition designed by Hayatsu Architects runs until 19 June 2022.

photo by Max Creasy

March 2022

Takeshi was interviewed by Matthew Blunderfield for the podcast Scaffold episode 59.

February 2022

The Blue Market Bermondsey is featured in Casabella 930 ‘Other Londons’ issue, edited by Ellis Woodman and William Mann.

January 2022

Thank you RIBA Journal for featuring our work on the January 2022 culture profile pages.

December 2021

We had a fantastic year despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic. Thank you to all the contributors, friends, families, clients, colleagues, teachers and students for such a wonderful time. Looking forward to continuing our endeavour with you in 2022. Merry Christmas.

November 2021

Delighted to receive planning permission for the new public house project in Catford - refurbishment of the former Catford Constitutional Club building as part of the town centre regeneration project for Lewisham Council with Turner Works, Surman Weston and Webb Yates.

November 2021

We are working on the exhibition design for Royal Academy of Arts, Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection 19 March - 19 June 2022. Kawanabe Kyōsai was one of the most exciting Japanese painters of the 19th century. The exhibition will showcase his work some of which has never been seen before.

Image: Kawanabe Kyōsai, Famous from India: Elephants at Play, 1863

November 2021

In Kingston School of Art Register seminar on 3rd November 14:00 - 16:00 join MArch Unit 5 led by Takeshi Hayatsu and 121 collective and special guests Alastair Fitter, Irenee Scalbert and Tom Emerson as they discuss RSR Fitter’s London’s Natural History - the first history of a city in terms of the animals and plants it displaced, changed, introduced, conserved, or lost.

September 2021

The Modernist Glade, art and architecture installation in Milton Keynes Station Square is now open to public. It will host a two year long programme, activating the underused city’s largest open public space.

Photo by David Grandorge

August 2021

Nature Hide for Tolworth Moated Manor Nature Reserve is now complete. It is designed and built by the students from Kingston School of Art where Takeshi teaches MArch Unit 5 with 121 Collective.

July 2021

The Mayor of Southwark officially inaugurated the new clocktower at The Blue Market Bermondsey we designed together with Assemble and Stinsensqueeze.

June 2021

The plan for transforming the Milton Keynes Station Square is well underway. We are working closely with Milton Keynes Council, Milton Keynes Development Partnership, the art producer Aldo Rinaldi and the artist Tue Greenfort to create a series of temporary installations. The project aims to enhance the biodiversity of the square, improve the way finding, and support cultural, horticultural and educational programmes planned for the next two years.

May 2021

We are working with Turner Works and Lewisham Council to develop a new public house in Catford Town Centre. More info in beyondbroadwaycatford.co.uk

April 2021

A job alert!

We are looking for a part 2 or part 3 candidate to join our team. Our work ranges from public to private commissions including pavilion installations, exhibitions, refurbishments of old buildings, new built buildings and public realms. The ideal candidate needs to have a passion for what you do, be open-minded and efficient. We use Archicad and Rhino for digital productions, alongside wood and paper physical models and 1:1 prototypes working with the makers in the Sugarhouse Studios.

Please send your cv and examples of work to takeshi@hayatsuarchitects.com The deadline for the application is 9th April.

March 2021

The construction of The Blue Market Bermondsey is well progressing. The off-site fabrication of the new clock tower has commenced at the workshop of William Floyd Maclean, testing out the key junctions in a 1:1 prototype before embarking the whole thing.

March 2021

Planning permission granted for the extension to the family home in Dartmouth Conservation Area near Highgate!

The original house was designed and built by Walter Segal in 1952, known as St Anne’s Close. The stepped arrangement of the extension follows the ground terrain and forms the new western edge to the south facing garden designed by Non Morris.

January 2021

Happy New Year.

Pleased to announce that the construction work has started on site at The Blue Market Bermondsey, with the appointed main contractor Warwick Landscaping. The work will be completed in this summer, but the market remains open throughout the duration.

December 2020

Takeshi Hayatsu’s interview is in this book ‘Architects After Architecture’ by Harriet Harris, Rory Hyde and Roberta Marcaccio.

December 2020

We won the Milton Keynes Station Square Public Art commission in collaboration with curator and producer Aldo Rinaldi. Our scheme features a temporary forest in the city’s largest square, providing a canopy and gathering point for events, food stalls and public gatherings.

November 2020

We’ve submitted a full planning and listed building consent application to South Cambridgeshire District Council for the thatched roof extension to a Grade II listed cottage in Fen Drayton.

The project uses locally sourced materials and traditional building construction techniques in contemporary applications.

November 2020

As part of Takeshi Hayatsu’s teaching programme at Kingston School of Art, Japanese architect/historian Terunobu Fujimori will talk about surrealism in architecture.

October 2020

Our competition entry scheme for Reimagining Butler’s Wharf is currently online in the virtual exhibition by London Festival of Architecture. Please visit and vote for your favourite scheme. The exhibition runs until 16 October.

October 2020

‘Behind The Books: The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ opens at Tenderbooks on 6 Cecil Court, London. Designed with Studio Mathias Clottu, the display system utilises 1 ton of stacked B1 white papers to create a soft miniature landscape for the beautiful books. Photo by Thomas Adank

September 2020

We built this outdoor classroom at Nibthwaite Grange Farm in the Lake District, together with 10 students and Material Cultures, during the 7 day building school organised by Grizedale Arts and Dodgson Wood.

September 2020

Working with the graphic design studio Stinsensqueeze, we are shortlisted for the competition to design a new public realm in Butler’s Wharf; 250 m long concrete jetty built in 1873.

August 2020

We have submitted planning for a house extension project in Dartmouth Park conservation area. The original house was designed by Walter Segal in 1952. He created a tight-knit community of housing on a former tennis court site using the as-found terraced terrain, known as St Anne’s Close. Our stepped extension design follows his principle of working with what is already there.

August 2020

A new 7 day building school programme with Grizedale Arts enrolling now. Please visit here for more details.

July 2020

Full planning application was submitted to the Southwark Council for The Blue Market Bermondsey. We built a 1:1 scale mockup of the proposed clock tower in March, just before the lockdown.

June 2020

We are honoured to be selected in the forthcoming publication ‘New Architects 4’ by Architecture Foundation, a major publication surveying the best British architectural practices established in the past ten years..

May 2020

We presented the proposed design for the Cerebos Gardens to the Community Review Group (CRG) at Old Oak and Park Royal; a community-led project to regenerate three existing open spaces into one continuous park themed around biodiversity, learning, art and play.

April 2020

We designed a bespoke ceramic doorknob for the Heath Flat. The product was developed with Granby Workshop in Liverpool, with their trademark BBQ smoke finish using recycled clay from Stoke-on-Trent.

April 2020

Heath Flat is nearly complete, despite the challenge faced with the recent pandemic in London. Working closely with the contractor Sygnet Style, the Edwardian flat is converted into a flexible open plan space.

March 2020

Hayatsu Architects are promoting the idea of re-wilding our city. Originally conceived for Waltham Forest Council and Create London for their Making Places commissions, we designed a bug hotel wall made from green oak, in collaboration with the ecologist social enterprise Citizen Zoo and the maker William Floyd Maclean. Anyone interested in the project please contact us for more details.

March 2020

We won a competition to design a new community centre and housing for Sanford Housing Co-op in New Cross. Sanford is the oldest purpose built housing co-op in the UK founded in 1973. The proposed building comprises a 1.6 m thick straw bale wall lined with clay plaster, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, providing a responsive environment for users’ wellbeing.

February 2020

We are looking for a dedicated and talented Part 1/ Part 2 assistant. Archicad experience essential. Please apply your CV and examples of work to takeshi@hayatsuarchitects.com or send a hard copy.

January 2020

Construction of Ruskin Road in Whitworth Park in Manchester has started. The productive community gardens will be reinstated incrementally, together with the future plan for building an outdoor class room, cooking facilities and a park keeper’s gate house.

January 2020

Happy New Year.

We are excited to start the year with a new commission from OPDC (Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation) and community members to work with local residents to improve three green spaces along Victoria Road, called Cerebos Gardens. It is part of the wider initiative In the Making, OPDC’s workstreams delivering creative projects and activities benefiting local communities, and creating a sense of place across Old Oak and Park Royal.

October 2019

We are working with Assemble on the ‘Made In Bermondsey’ public realm project, to transform The Blue historic market into a better connected, socially and economically sustainable place, with a series of adjustments to the existing urban fabric.

September 2019

Construction has started for Heath Flat, a renovation of Edwardian building adjacent to Hampstead Heath, transforming it into a light-filled enfilade with a series of sliding screens.

August 2019

Japan summer school in the Kiwanosato valley in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture saw a construction of bee house by 14 international participants with the help from the villagers. It marks the beginning of Grizedale Arts’ ambitious 10 year plan to turn the disused terraced fields in the valley into a productive bee garden, and provide a place for learning and exchanging the apiculture between Japan, Europe, and around the world.

July 2019

A green oak frame extension project for a family home in Preston has received planning permission from Preston City Council.

Continuing the legacy of the garden city movement in the area, the project also interprets and celebrates arts and crafts architecture.

July 2019

We are looking for a part 2 architectural assistant to work on a range of exciting projects. Archicad experience preferable.

Please apply your CV and examples of work to takeshi@hayatsuarchitects.com by 31 July 2019

July 2019

We won an invited competition for a community-led regeneration project for The Blue Market in Bermondsey, Southwark. It is a joint bid with Assemble, graphic designer Stinsensqueeze, landscape architects Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects, quantity surveyor Gleeds, and retail specialist Retail Revival. The project is funded by the Mayor of London’s LEAP Good Growth Fund.

A temporary project office is now set on site and we will be doing a lot of making with the people in Bermondsey.

Graphic design by STSQ

June 2019

Washi House, a small commission from V&A for Paper Castles exhibition at the V&A’s architecture gallery. The model made from steel wire and Japanese washi paper is our response to the H.M. Queen Mary’s Japanese doll house from the Museum of Childhood collection.

May 2019

Architecture summer school enrolling now. For more information please visit this link

April 2019

A limited edition print ‘The Road’ is now available from RIBApix Giclee print on 30 x 40 cm Hahnemühle Bamboo paper

January 2019

We designed a new exhibition Making It Happen: New Community Architecture at the RIBA Architecture Gallery in London, which opened this week. It showcases four very different examples of new and inspiring community architecture projects in the UK, including our on-going project The Road in Coniston. The exhibition runs until 27th April and there will be a series of workshops and talks relating to the show.

December 2018

We are shortlisted for the River View Competition organised by London Festival of Architecture, City of London Corporation and Illuminated River Foundation. The winner will be announced in the new year.

November 2018

Of Tools and Creatures opens until 4 January 2019 in the Window Galleries, Central Saint Martins. The exhibition documents the last four years of hands-on working methods involved in the MArch Architecture’s summer building unit: Constructing in detail led by Takeshi Hayatsu, Greg Ross, and Carlotta Novella.

November 2018

Green Shed - mobile gardening pods, will be joining the community planting event on Tolworth Broadway on 1st December 2018, organised by the Community Brain.

September 2018

Commissioned by Grizedale Arts and Coniston Institute, Hayatsu Architects are currently working with local artist Karen Guthrie on the master plan for the new public realm ‘The Road’ in Coniston, Cumbria. It is a Grizedale Arts’ on-going participatory project, inspired by the John Ruskin’s iconic road building project in Hinksey, 1874.

June 2018

SHEDx, a community engagement project in Tolworth with The Community Brain, Kingston School of Art and Reed Watts Architects was exhibited in the courtyard of Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington. A replica of an existing allotment shed is designed to travel and promote the idea of good growth.

May 2018

Planning permission was granted by London Borough of Camden for The Lodge, a gallery owner's family home in Hampstead. 

April 2018

The Road project designed and built together with the students and tutors at Central Saint Martins has been shortlisted for Architects Journal Small Projects Awards 2018.

March 2018

We have submitted a full planning application to London Borough of Lambeth for the new built house The Other Space, designed for the contemporary artist Eduardo Padilha.

February 2018

We participated a community led annual Seething Festival organised by The Community Brain in Surbiton with a mobile timber structure called Surbiton Yatai designed and built by the students of Kingston School of Art. Photo by Serina Harb

February 2018

We collaborated with Assemble to design a holiday accommodation for Landmark Trust. It was a shortlisted competition scheme converting the Grade I Listed manor house Calverley Old Hall in West Yorkshire dating back to 12th Century.

January 2018

Hayatsu Architects designed a wooden goat pavilion in collaboration with the artist Fernando Garcia-Dory for the exhibition 'The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind' at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. There will be many events and workshops relating to milking and cheese making. The event schedule can be found in this link.

January 2018

Happy New Year.

We are currently working with Hauser & Wirth Somerset for the forthcoming exhibition 'The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind' curated by Adam Sutherland. The exhibition opens on 20th January. 

October 2017

The first phase of The Road project was completed together with 11 post graduate architecture students from Central Saint Martins, with the help of local people in Coniston, Cumbria.

‘A Time and a Place for Pleasure’

The British Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

October 2017

Hayatsu Architects was commissioned by RIBA curatorial team to design a proposal for the British Pavilion at the 16th Architecture Biennale Venice 2018. It was a joint bid collaborating with architecture and art practices dRMM, Apparata, Processcraft, and Grizedale Arts. The RIBA-led team was one of four shortlisted finalists. 

October 2017

We received a listed building consent from LBC of Hounslow to repair the beautiful Grade II Listed 18th century house where the landscape painter Lucien Pissarro and his family lived between 1901 - 1944. We will be working with the building conservation specialist DBR Leadwork from Peckham and the work will begin end of October. 

September 2017

Takeshi's name was mentioned for his collaborative work with Kingston students in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine article by Edwin Heathcote (9.9.17) about the current design scene in London, among the other names 6a, Simon Jones, Michael Marriott, Assemble and Practice Architecture.  

August 2017

Hayatsu Architects have been working with Grizedale Arts in partnership with Central Saint Martins to design and build an information kiosk and a community oven for The Road Project and Coniston Coppermines heritage project. The prefabricated timber structures and hand made copper shingles will be installed on site in October 2017, in the ground of John Ruskin Museum and Coniston Institute, Lake District, Cumbria. 

May 2017

We are settled in the new studio space in Bermondsey, Sugarhouse Studios, sharing the sunny courtyard with the Assemble and among the other makers. Our new address is in the contact page.

April 2017

Takeshi was interviewed by Andrew Marr on the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week on Easter Monday 17th April, together with an architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff, Professor Charles Spence and a chef and food writer Anissa Helou, discussing the preservation of Japanese houses, architectural education and design process. 

March 2017

Takeshi participated in the interview of Terunobu Fujimori by the architecture professor Andrew Clancy at Kingston University, which is available to listen in iTunes, Register Episode 5.

the Japanese house: architecture and life after 1945

March 2017

Hayatsu Architects worked with Japanese architect/ historian Terunobu Fujimori to design and build the teahouse and garden for The Japanese House exhibition at Barbican Centre. The teahouse was built together with architecture and product design students from Kingston University. 

SEMINAR HOUSE PAVILION SHORTLISTED FOR AJ SMALL PROJECTS AWARD

March 2017

The Seminar House Pavilion designed and built with the architecture students from Kingston University, in collaboration with Simon Jones, during the academic year 2015 - 16 for Dorich House Museum is shortlisted for this year's Architects Journal Small Projects Awards 2017.

shortlisted for Dulwich picture gallery summer pavilion 2017

January 2017

Hayatsu Architects designed a shortlisted scheme for Dulwich Picture Gallery in collaboration with Tom Benton architects and the V&A researcher M.J. Wells.

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