More bamboo: this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates, features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. More »
Tag: tea houses
Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse
Tea Houses
by Swatt | Miers
Architects Swatt | Miers have suspended three glass pavilions over the edge of a valley in northern California (+ slideshow). More »
smith&hsu Teahouse by Carsten Jörgensen
Jars of tea and second-hand books are separated in stacked wooden cubes at a Taipei teahouse. More »
Black Teahouse by A1Architects
Visitors to this timber tea house sit beneath a woven rope dome with a gilded skylight and a hanging teapot in the middle. More »
Tea House by David Jameson
A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. More »
Teahouse by Takeshi Hayatsu
and Kristin Trommler

Takeshi Hayatsu and Kristin Trommler of London studio 6a Architects collaborated with students at Cardiff University to build a timber-framed tea house with wattle and daub panels. More »
Victor meditation hut by Jeffery Poss

The v-shaped roof of this Illinois tea house by architect Jeffery Poss funnels rainwater to a spout over the adjacent pond. More »
Hat Tea House by A1Architects

A1Architects of Prague designed this little tea house with a tall roof in Ostrava in the Czech Republic. More »
1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces at the V&A

Architectural structures by seven architects including Terunobu Fujimori (above), Rintala Eggertsson and Sou Fujimoto open to the public today in the galleries of the V&A museum in London. More »
Tea house by David Maštálka

David Maštálka of A1 Architects has collaborated with sculptor Vojtech Bilisic to build a tea house in Prague, Czech Republic. More »
Takasugi-an by Terunobu Fujimori

Following yesterday's Charcoal House story, here's another of Terunobu Fujimori's projects photographed by Edmund Sumner: this time Takasugi-an, a tea house in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Paper Tea House by Shigeru Ban

A tea house made out of paper and cardboard, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, is to be auctioned in London tomorrow. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Souan Tea House by Toshihiko Suzuki

We're heading to Tokyo today for Tokyo design week so, while we're on the plane, here is some contemporary Japanese architecture for you to enjoy, courtesy of New Zen, a recent book about contemporary Japanese tea houses published by 8Books. The project shown here is Souan Tea House by Toshihiko Suzuki, which was built in 2003.


