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Takasugi-an, Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Completed in Spring, 2004. Terunobu Fujimori, a professor of architecture at the University of Tokyo, built his boyhood dream hideaway, a teahouse on stilts, in the bottom of his father’s garden. So said his father when he saw it: “There goes Terunobu, making something wacky again.” I love it!
At the end of this post I have included some links to the man’s amazing works - I’d say they’re worth studying….. this is not your traditional Japanese architecture! Very inspiring.