This lavishly illustrated monograph features the architecture and design work of renowned firm TSK, a multi-award-winning firm that focuses on regionally sensitive modernism and sustainable design. Over the course of more than 60 years, the firm continues to aim to minimise the consumption of non-renewable resources, contribute positively to the environment, and design architecture that connects the inhabitant to the world around them. The firm looks to help reveal the beauty of the surrounding landscape, capture seasonal changes, and engage the climate to create architecture that is simple and yet greater than the sum of its parts. This book is filled with rich, full-colour photographs, detailed plans and diagrams, and incisive commentary that describes in great depth the concepts behind the firm's extensive collection of works. TSK is consistently recognised as one of the top design firms in the United States.
Really Learning from Las Vegas: The Work of Windom Kimsey and TSK by
Aaron Betsky
Firm Profile
CURRENT
Kirk Kerkorian Medical Education Building at UNLV
North Butte County Courthouse
B-Tech Towers
Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall
Silverland Middle School
SouthEND on Water
Sahara DMV Service Center
College of Southern Nevada Student Unions
Rex Bell Elementray School Prototype
Lincoln Elementary School Prototype
CXTX Auto City Phase II
Topaz
Clark County Fire Station No. 61
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Date Street Campus
Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies
John F. Miller School
Truckee Meadows FPD Station No. 33
OBrien Middle School
Norton Science and Language Academy
Northeast Career Technical Academy
Silverado Ranch DMV Service Center
UNBUILT
Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry
OCT Kunming Headquarters
Yichang New District Master Plan
City of Colton City Services Offices and Support Building
LEGACY
Harry Reid International Airport Satellite D Gates
Clark County Regional Justice Center
Springs Preserve Visitor Center
UNLV Student Union
CSULA Auxiliary Services CenterGolden Eagle
Henderson North Community Police Station
Mills B. Lane Justice Center
Volcano Vista High School
Arbor View High School
Regional Animal Campus
APPENDIX
Awards and Recognition
Project Credits
Thank You
TSK is a multi-award-winning architecture and interior design firm with more than 60 years of experience, bringing regionally sensitive modernism and sustainable design primarily in Nevada and California, and in China. It provides innovative and sustainable solutions to the challenges of public architecture, building spaces that inspire, inform, and innovate. As a trusted advisor to an impressive range of clients in the education, civic, justice, and commercial sectors, TSKs' architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Its principal passion is to merge the built environment with the natural environment, as well as the contextual and cultural environments. It aims to minimise the consumption of non-renewable resources, contribute positively to the environment, and design architecture that connects the inhabitant to the world around them. The firm looks to help reveal the beauty of the surrounding landscape, capture seasonal changes, and engage the climate to create architecture that is simple and yet greater than the sum of its parts. TSK Architects is consistently recognised as one of the top design firms in the United States.
