{Old and New  in Beijing. It’s an interesting version I haven’t seen in a while! Designed by Arch St

{Old and New  in Beijing. It’s an interesting version I haven’t seen in a while! Designed by Arch Studio.} Curving glass walls enclose bamboo-planted courtyards in this tea house, which occupies a formerly derelict building complex in one Beijing’s ancient neighbourhoods.  A pivoting glass door set in a narrow alley leads from the street into the tea house. Curving courtyards cut into the body of the complex are filled with bamboo shoots and enclosed with glass panels to make the building weather-tight. Original brickwork and timber are left exposed across the interior to contrast patches of new white-painted brick and glass, intended to create “a mutual dialogue between the past and future”.Photography is by Wang Ning. via -- source link

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