About

Studio

HGA (Hayashi – Grossschmidt Arhitektuur) was born in 2004, out of Coo Arhitektid which was an active young architects’ platform during 1999-2003.

Partners are Hanno Grossschmidt from Estonia and Tomomi Hayashi from Japan whose successful partnership was recognised and awarded with Young Architect Prize in 2010.

The range of projects diverses from temporary installations to urban plannings, which have been noted locally as well as internationally through exhibitions and publications.

Major awards include Estonian Culture Endowment Architectural Prizes in 2003 (Lasnamäe Track and Field Center/ Lasnamäe Kergejõustikuhall) and in 2009 (Rotermann Old and New Flour Storage/ Rotermanni Vana ja Uus Jahuladu). The same project were nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award in 2005 and 2009.

The practice has participated in creation of the recently-completed Estonian National Museum as a local architect.

Contact

OÜ HG Arhitektuur

Contact

Narva mnt 7d
10117 Tallinn
Estonia

Phone

+372 6696 719

E-mail

info@hga.ee

Social media

Facebook

Office Philosophy

Our office functions as a creative design team exploring architectural interactions in practical, contextual, and materialistic manner through collaborative relationships with clients, builders, engineers, designers, as well as users in large context.

We consider architecture as a part of scene/landscape which interacts with the surrounding environments through its tolerant potential. We try to make the building commuinicative by articulation of its volumes, materials and building programmes. The building is to be functional, though not tightly but loosely to suggest or support everyday life of users and the public.

Through architecture we can enliven, strengthen and also heal the environment of and around the site. This is basics of architecture as a tool of placemaking.

1973

Born in Tallinn, Estonia

1997

Bachelor of Architecture/ Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

1999

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

1998

AS ENTEC Tallinn, Estonia

1998

Urbel ja Peil AB, Tallinn

1999

McAllister Architectural Consulting Services, Alexandria, VA, USA

1999

Founded COO Arhitektid with Kalle Komissarov, Katrin Koov, Kaire Nõmm, Rene Valner in Tallinn

2004

Reformed into HG Arhitektuur

2011

Received YOUNG ARCHITECT AWARD

2010

Chartered architect-expert VIII, A member of the Union of Estonian Architects

1971

Born in Toyama, Japan

1994

Bachelor of Architecture/ Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

1999

Master of Architecture/ Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia, USA

1994–95

Maki and Associates, Tokyo, Japan

1999–01

Rafael Viñoly Architects, New York, USA

2001

Founded Head Arhitektid with Indrek Peil and Siiri Vallner in Tallinn

2003

Collaborated with Arhitektuuribüroo KOSMOS, Tallinn

2004

Joined COO Arhitektid, later reformed into HG Arhitektuur

2012–17

Head of the Institute of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Environmental Engineering at TTK University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn

2016

Associate professor, Institute of Architecture, TTK University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn
Chartered architect-expert VIII,A member of the Union of Estonian Architects

Former Staff

Pille Heinloo, Bernat Bosch (Spain), Yoko Azukawa (Japan), Simone Leuenberger (Switzerland), Anne Fridberg (Denmark), Michael Clapp (USA), Jana Zackova (Czech Republic), Ivari Eller, Eela Samblik, Kristel Niisuke, Helen Oja, Elo Kiivet, Timo Titma, Birgit Jaanus, Tanel Oolu, Sander Treijar, Liis Voksepp, Triin Lehtmets, Liisa Peri, Agur-Andri Tarmo, Erina Shibagaki (Japan), Roosmarii Kukk, Grete Liis Nagelmann, Katrin Lang