• By Wilson Rothman
    Mar 12, 2009 11:00 PM 33,464
    read more: #architecture, #teahousetreehouse, #designmodo, #teahouse, #treehouse, #treefort, #ewok, #takasugian, #terunobufujimori

    Takasugi-an Treehouse Is Scariest Teahouse Ever

    Here are six reasons why I think that the amazing Takasugi-an Teahouse is, nevertheless, somewhere I'd never be caught dead, despite my love of tea:

    1. It's built atop two chestnut trees that were chopped down, so no roots, just engineering.

    2. You can only get inside by using free-standing ladders.

    3. It sways.

    4. Tea is apparently brewed over an open fire.

    5. I don't see no safety nets.

    6. Its name. When the architect and owner, Terunobu Fujimori, set it up in Chino City, in the Nagano Prefecture in Japan, he called it Takasugi-an, which roughly translates as "tea house that's too high." Now there's a vote of confidence.

    Lots more information and plenty of Edmund Sumner's great pictures over at Dezeen. [Dezeen]


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