Tea House Architecture

Image 5 of 21 from gallery of Teamakers Guest House Competition Results Announced. First Prize Winner. Image © Johann Evin

"A house and dewed ground Guest and host Drinking together a cup of tea In quiet contemplation In spiritual symphony" - Japanese master, Sen no Rikyú {Images via Desire To Inspire by A1 Architects}

built by grau architects, the 'tea house pavilion' is a collaborative project born on the occasion of mood for wood's 2022 workshop program.

Benches are suspended from the roof of this compact glass-walled tea house, which faces out onto a landscaped garden squeezed onto a small plot in Shanghai.

Kengo Kuma designed a tea house on Vancouver roof terrace.

Started as a small-scale project for the Glasstress 2011, the collateral event of the 54th La Biennale di Venezia, the Tokujin Yoshioka’s KOU-AN Glass Tea House was finally unveiled in Kyoto.

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has designed a pavilion for hosting traditional tea ceremonies on the deck of a Vancouver tower.

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Completed in 2018 in Yueyang, China. Images by Weiqi Jin. There is an old saying goes like this: "Half of Chinese poets are in Hunan", which shows the most distinctive feature included in Hunan's culture,...

Japanese tea houses are traditionally painted in a neutral colour palette, such as beige or cream. This combined with the raw materials used in the tea house creates an open and tranquil space. Overall, the decoration is kept to a minimum, with only the tokonoma drawing attention with its typical display of a chabana and a kakemono. The lattice-framed windows and sliding doors are called shoji. They’re covered in a translucent white paper that diffuses the natural light entering the room…