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F.A.D.S + fujiki studio created a temporary hut, in Shinku-Ku, Japan, in which they argued that breathing architecture behaves like a ‘living thing‘. The artwork is composed of a nested structure with…

Terunobu Fujimori’s teahouses literally grow on trees. The Japanese architect builds poetic sites of ceremonial encounter into the forks and onto the trunks of trees. Now the 73-year-old is inviting…

During the kogei exhibition, a group of artists installed the five elements tea room at the 21st century museum of contemporary art in kanazawa using concentric layers of shoji screens. The team, consisting of artist ohi…

Moriyuki ochai architects sets a constellation of tea rooms under the stars, a cluster of tea rooms offering a view of the surrounding scenery and the starlit sky as a…

As of this summer, the teahouse that Wang Shu and his wife and Amateur Architecture Studio partner, Lu Wenyu, began designing 10 years ago for a Buddhist temple in their…

Titled ‘shi-an’, this temporary tea house was created using only ‘washi’, traditional Japanese paper, as a structural element. in order to stabilize the typically fragile material, an origami technique was developed. this not…

Waterfrom Design designed the Tea Community Centre to reference The Peach Blossom Spring, a Chinese story in which a fisherman discovers a utopia where humans live in complete peace with nature.…