Building Over a Stream

There is something beautiful about buildings that are built out over a stream.  When they are integrated into the landscape they can bring people down into the ecosystem while generating respect for the riparian area. In Japan there are kawayukas, or decks built on stilts for restaurants. People can eat and dabble their toes in the water. It looks to me like these structures are pretty minimalistic. Either easy to dissasemble and remove during the off season or not a great loss if they are swept away. They use natural materials as well.

Do you have a favorite spot that is built on or over a stream?

I would adore having one of those semi-circular Japanese bridges over my winter creek (instead of the boring metal culvert that gives me a crossing point), but alas, I have many more important building projects to tackle first.

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OK, I admit it's not a building, but I've liked them for decades.

I was somewhere around 8-9 when I heard a song by Simon and Garfunkel called "So Long Frank Lloyd Wright."  I asked my mom who FLW was, she smiled and told me to look him up at the library. "I think you'll like him!" The first house of his I saw was "Fallingwater" in Pennsylvania. I was hooked on neat architecture at that point!  
Still my favorite water feature house, I have seen a lot since then, but that one was my first and still fascinates me.



Another one I saw someplace had a glass covered stream in the living room, then you step out on the deck, and the deck was shaped around a pond the stream made. Just awesome.

And I'm with Jay, I want an arch bridge too, not that steep, but that graceful.

I had a look at the link you supplied.
Very fascinating, and I am surprised at the variation of the structures.
"While kawakodo are temporary, they are quite sturdy–built with metal and bamboo, and topped with tatami floors for a traditional Japanese experience.
Between Kibune’s higher elevation in the mountains and the platform’s location mere feet above the water, these terraces are quite cool, even on days when it’s sweltering in Kyoto proper."
I guess trickling water and the mist on hot days would be idyllic,  a small number of people and with no thumping music .
Something which may be impossible in the "west".

'Falling Water' is beautiful, but was the subject of a high tech restoration with tensile stressed rods to hold the slabs, because it was poorly engineered.