The world's first circular teahouse pavilion using food waste as a structure
Winner of the iF Gold Award, the highest award at the international design awards

Earning high marks for sustainability

This year's iF DESIGN AWARD The awards have added a new judging item to evaluate sustainability initiatives, strengthening their policy of "evaluating designs that create a better future." ^* This is a series of teahouses whose structures are made from new materials made from food waste. World Food-Waste Teahouse" received particularly high marks in the sustainability category, with the judges' comments stating that "what is 'waste' depends on the perspective of the viewer," and "it is food for thought that gives people an opportunity to think about and discuss what waste is and how to best utilize it." Food for thought)' was evaluated as being.
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For more details about the design concept of each tea room and the technologies used, please see this release.

Advance to the final round of the "TECTURE AWARD"

This work was selected as a finalist from 875 entries in the TECTURE AWARD (organized by tecture Inc.), an architecture award selected by public vote. The final round to select the grand prize winner is now underway. Please cast your vote.

▼TECTURE AWARD Final Round Event Outline