Thai Binh Lau Pavilion is a two-storey wooden house at the Northeast of Hue Forbidden Purple City. It was constructed in 1919, under the reign of emperor Khai Dinh for the emperor’s entertaiment, reading and making poems.
Thai Binh Lau Pavilion is a double house located in a rectangular surface of 32m in width and 58m in length. The pavilion faced the East with two short winged-corridors at the left and right, a geomantic screen at the front yard, and the rockery combined with water tank at the back yard, which creates high artistic values for the landscape. The complex is surrounded with wall. The foundation of Thai Binh Lau Pavilion is 1m high. Its front hall has 4 brick columns coated with mortar. The pavilion has a hanging applied with three terra-cotta Han character “Thai Binh Lau”. At backof the front hall, there finds the main hall of two stories, 9.55m high and yellow tube tile roof. The back hall has three apartments, two lean-tos and the flat tile roof. It is typical that Thai Binh Lau has a system of decorative mosaics of the highest development applied on the roof with a variety of colors and shapes.