Article source: Atelier Ryo Abe Works

Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts, and dinning from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima. Teshima is a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan, just next to the famous art tourism island of Naoshima.

Image Courtesy Daici Ano

• Architects: Atelier Ryo Abe Architects
• Project: Shima Kitchen
• Location: Kagawa prefecture, Japan
• Program: restaurant, theater, gallery
• Principal designer: Ryo Abe
• Site area: 1,100 m2
• Built-up area: 429 m2
• Year of completion: 2010
• Text credits: Ryo Abe
• Photo credits: Daici Ano

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