Mizzi Studio’s coffee house overlooking the Serpentine Lake in London’s Hyde Park has opened.

The kiosk, which has space for 60 people, takes its inspiration from an ancient Japanese tea house with its canopy designed to resemble a stingray swimming through water, said the architects.

The 11 x 9m canopy is reinforced with carbon and glass fibre and has been hand-painted to give an aged-brass finish. It is textured on the underside with snakeskin-inspired, coffer-like dimples. It tapers towards its edges and cantilevers over the glass structure below to create open-air seating, with capacity for 60 people to sit under and around it.

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