The contemporary tea house : Gendai no chashitsu : Japan's top architects redefine a tradition / Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Terunobu Fujimori ; additional text by Kengo Kuma and Hiroshi Hara ; ...

Kuma cited Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose Japanese-influenced oak tea room has been reconstructed within V&A Dundee. "Scotland and Japan have a history of exchange," he said.

Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has added a staggered housing development, which employs construction techniques taken from dams, to a mountainous hillside location in Japan.