Droog copies China
News: Dutch design collective Droog will turn the notion of piracy in China on its head by unveiling its own copies of Chinese objects in a Guangzhou shopping centre next week. More
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Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse by HWCD Associates
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
Silent Machine by Eunjae Lee
The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. More
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
Today at Dezeen Platform: Paula Benvegnú
Dezeen Platform: product designer Paula Benvegnú uses Dezeen Platform to present Family Tea today, a set of 30 ceramic cups and a teapot that represent a family tree. More
Black Teahouse by A1 Architects
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
100 Years After the Party by Makiko Nakamura
London Design Festival 2011: London designer Makiko Nakamura will exhibit a tea set engulfed in flowers and foliage at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month. 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
Drink Link by Joon Lee
Endhoven designer Joon Lee has created this tea set where all the cups are linked to a central jug by ropes. 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
Teapot/cup by Louie Rigano
American designer Louie Rigano has created a range of teapots that combines mass-produced wooden handles and lids with individual hand-thrown bodies. 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
Here's another of Terunobu Fujimori's projects photographed by Edmund Sumner: this time Takasugi-an, a tea house in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. 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. 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.