Gebler Tooth

Gebler Tooth is an RIBA Chartered Practice of roughly 50 Architects and Designers, established in London in 1984 by Sasha Gebler and David Tooth, though they originally set up with a third partner, David Partridge, as Gebler Tooth Partridge, in 1982. [1]

One of Gebler Tooth's best known buildings in London is the flagship Theo Fennell jewellery store at the junction of Fulham Road and Sydney Place in Chelsea.

Theo Fennell building designed by Gebler Tooth Architects

They worked on Shoreditch House in London, part of the Soho House group, where they adapted three floors of an industrial building on Shoreditch High Street, into a private members' club for creative professionals. The project won the LABC Change of Use Excellence Award (London Region) in 2015.[2] Other Gebler Tooth projects for Nick Jones, the founder of the Soho House group, include the original designs for the Dean Street Town House, the Electric Cinema, Notting Hill,[3][4] [5] [6] Ceconni's in London and Los Angeles, Soho House in Los Angeles and an 8 bedroom family house in London which GTA created for Nick Jones and his wife Kirsty Young.[7]

The renovation of the Electric Cinema and Electric House by Gebler Tooth, Moving Pictures, November 2000

Gebler Tooth has designed a number of restaurants in London including San Lorenzo in Knightsbridge. [8] and Iniga Bar & Restaurant on the Fulham Road. [9]

Gebler Tooth have worked on terminals at Heathrow Airport,[10] Birmingham City Airport, Gatwick Airport, Sydney Airport and the Rajiv Gandhi Airport in Hyderabad.[11] For BAA Heathrow, they created the Olympic Games 2012 Terminal equivalent in size to three Olympic swimming pools.[12] GTA equipped the terminal with 31 check in desks, baggage acceptance and removal points and vehicle docks, passenger queuing, security screening points, passport control and departure gates. [13]The building was fully air conditioned and serviced with all required airport and airline security and data systems.[14] Gebler Tooth Architects have completed a number of airport executive lounges and the 'Heathrow Pod' for Heathrow Terminal 5 .[15] Other transport projects include Paddington Station.[16] [17]

Sports projects by Gebler Tooth include Team GB House, on the top floor of an office building at Westfield, Stratford for the London 2012 Olympic Games.[18][19] and the HQ for the British Olympic Association in central London, where the walls of the reception area are banded with the five Olympic colours and incorporate 13 glass cases exhibiting Olympic torches from games past.[20] They also designed the Football Association HQ at Wembley Stadium.[21][22][23]

Sasha Gebler and David Tooth met while reading architecture at Cambridge University, where they contributed to a United Nations report on the vulnerability of low-income housing in Earthquake areas.[24]

Their many office projects include a London HQ for Working Title Films.[25]

Gebler Tooth have been involved in town planning projects. They were commissioned by Salisbury City Council and Salisbury BID to review the current WCC Core Strategy documentation against a "New Vision" for economic regeneration of the wider Salisbury area; but with specific attention to the development proposals for key parts of the city that were under consideration. Their recommendations were not adopted.[26]

GTA residential buildings include a holiday home for Edna O'Brien in Ireland,[27] the conversion of a Victorian warehouse in Wapping [28] and a large country estate in Cranleigh. [29] [30][31] In October 2016 Gebler Tooth completed a development of period industrial buildings and townhouses in Hereford Road, Notting Hill.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Ashton, James (1 August 2014). "Argent's David Partridge - it's all change". Evening Standard.
  2. ↑ "LABC Award Winners 2015".
  3. ↑ Sweet, Fay (30 April 2002). "Star of the Big Screen". Evening Standard.
  4. ↑ Hart, Pendle (March 2008). "He's Electric". The Hill Resident.
  5. ↑ Brownfoot, Jan (2001). "Theatres". Ladbroke Association.
  6. ↑ "The Electric Cinema takes comfort to the Next Level". Mayfair Life. January 2014.
  7. ↑ Kay, Richard. "Mr Razzle Dazzle set to sell up". The Daily Mail.
  8. ↑ "Lunch with Edna O'Brien". New York Times.
  9. ↑ "Just Opened". The Caterer. 23 March 2005.
  10. ↑ "Terminal velocity". Design Week Online. 19 June 1998.
  11. ↑ "Gebler Tooth and AIQ at Hyderabad". ADC.
  12. ↑ "Heathrow plans new terminal for Olympics". New Civil Engineer. 19 Jan 2012.
  13. ↑ "Heathrow Games Terminal passes construction milestone". Heathrow.com.
  14. ↑ "Building Design Online".
  15. ↑ "Heathrow Pod". Advanced Transit Association.
  16. ↑ "Paddington Station". Design Week. 2 September 1999.
  17. ↑ Manuelli, Sara (3 September 1999). "Traveller's Checks". Design Week.
  18. ↑ "Better never stops for British Olympic Team". Antidote.co.uk.
  19. ↑ Team GB House, Gebler Tooth.
  20. ↑ "British Olympic Association". dealerward case studies.
  21. ↑ "FA Wembley Stadium". Elite Tiling Ltd.
  22. ↑ "FA's Wembley Stadium Offices". No Nonsense Design.
  23. ↑ "Gebler Tooth Architects". Architizer.
  24. ↑ Spence, Robin. "Vulnerability of Low-Income Housing in Earthquake Areas" (PDF). EIRD.
  25. ↑ "Aybrook Street" (PDF). Cumberland Construction.
  26. ↑ "The Gebler Tooth Report". Salisbury Council.
  27. ↑ Mulcahy, Orna (10 January 2008). "Writers Holiday Home". The Irish Times.
  28. ↑ Spittles, David (6 October 2008). "One for the Portfolio". Evening Standard.
  29. ↑ "Blenheim House Construction".
  30. ↑ "Optima BIomass".
  31. ↑ "Raymond Higgins".
  32. ↑ McManus, David (10 November 2016). "City Vilage Town Houses, Hereford Road". E-architect.

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