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Tea House
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Tucked into a ravine tight against a water-worn sandstone cliff in the Pacific Northwest, this tea house is the terminus for a meandering path in a garden that borrows heavily from Asian traditions. |
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Sitting astride the suggestion of an abandoned stream bed, it provides out-of-the-way shelter for ceremony or meditation. Construction employed native fir and cedar woods in honest joinery, sheltered by high-fired roof tiles from Japan. |
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| Placement of the building was arranged to frame the weathered bedrock in a circular window. |
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