American artist and designer Daniel Arsham has built a blue zen garden complete with a Japanese tea house as one of a trio of installations at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. More about Daniel Arsham installs bright blue tea house inside Atlanta museum
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has designed a pavilion for hosting traditional tea ceremonies on the deck of a Vancouver tower, coinciding with an exhibition of his work across the street. More about Kengo Kuma installs teahouse on Vancouver roof terrace
Porthole windows offer glimpses into this Beijing tea house, where rooms are defined by light linen drapes and set in a landscape of white gravel, terrazzo and marble. More about Space Modification Unit transforms Beijing hutong property into tranquil tea house
A ring of benches is suspended from the roof of this glass-walled tea house, created by Atelier Deshaus beside a landscaped garden in Shanghai's West Bund. More about Atelier Deshaus creates glass and steel tea house for Shanghai garden
Chinese design brand Defront has created a tea service that it hopes will make traditional drinking ceremonies popular with the country's younger generation. More about Defront's Hei tea set is designed to revive China's tea ceremony tradition
Graduate shows 2016: Pforzheim University graduate Roxanne Flick has created a porcelain tea set that resembles the long necks and bodies of flamingoes. More about Roxanne Flick bases ceramic tea set on the shape of flamingos
Industrial designer Marc Newson has created a limited-edition silver tea service for Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen, which features handles made from mammoth tusks. More about Marc Newson designs £82,000 silver tea set with mammoth-ivory handles for Georg Jensen
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). More about GAAGA uses prefabricated wooden walls to build "three-legged" tea house in a Dutch park
Curving glass walls enclose bamboo-planted courtyards in this tea house, which occupies a formerly derelict building complex in one Beijing's ancient neighbourhoods (+ slideshow). More about Arch Studio transforms Beijing hutong into tea house with curving glass courtyards
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has arranged translucent plastic blocks in a brick-like formation to create new walls for a Beijing tea house overlooking the Forbidden City (+ slideshow). More about Kengo Kuma replaces the walls of a Beijing tea house with a grid of translucent blocks
Brooklyn designer Paul Loebach has used simple forms and materials for a teapot and matching glasses to provide an alternative to the "grandma look" of some ceramic designs (+ slideshow). More about Paul Loebach creates tea set with laboratory glass
Our latest Pinterest board is filled with tea houses by architects and designers including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto and Tokujin Yoshioka.
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Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More about Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: traditional Japanese tea ceremonies were staged inside a glass tea house designed by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at this year's biennale. More about Hiroshi Sugimoto's glass cube hosts Japanese tea ceremonies in Venice
Icelandic studio Hlutagerðin has designed this leather and lambskin armour to keep teapots warm and protect tablets from coffee table scrapes (+ slideshow). More about Hlutagerðin recreates ancient Icelandic armour for tea cosy and tablet case
Each of these porcelain teapots by Memphis group designer George Sowden has a steel basket filter with over 160,000 tiny holes to improve the taste of tea (+ slideshow). More about George Sowden designs Softbrew Teapots to alleviate "lousy" tea bags
A faint pattern of cherry blossom petals decorates window screens and furniture inside this tea house in Japan by Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects. More about Hiroyuki Ogawa patterns Japanese tea house with subtle cherry blossom motif
Beijing's Forbidden City is the backdrop for this tea house created by Chinese studio CutscapeArchitecture in place of two dilapidated warehouses (+ slideshow). More about Red-Wall Teahouse by CutscapeArchitecture flanks Beijing's Forbidden City
Large glowing letters spell out the Portuguese Spanish word for tea at the front of this tea house in Brazil by architects Estudio 30 51, the third cafe we've featured in the last seven days (+ slideshow). More about Huge glowing letters lead inside El Té tea house by Estudio 30 51
Czech studio A1 Architects covered the walls of this cafe in Prague with a tactile mixture of black plaster, coal and pieces of straw, in a modern take on the clay plasters used inside traditional Japanese tea houses (+ slideshow). More about Straw and plaster-lined cafe by A1 Architects based on Japanese tea houses