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Dezeen ArchitectureOMA dresses faceted French courthouse in coloured glass Dutch studio OMA has completed the Palais de Justice de Lille, a six-sided law court in northern France with a faceted facade lined with coloured glass .

Dezeen ArchitectureThin concrete plane defines minimalist villa in Ibiza by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos A thin white-concrete plane folds and steps down a hillside to enclose Bellavista 11, a minimalist home overlooking the sea in Ibiza , designed by Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos .

Dezeen ArchitectureSnøhetta completes landmark opera house in Shanghai A giant spiral staircase guides visitors to the roof of the Shanghai Grand Opera House, which international studio Snøhetta designed to be "as much a civic destination as a performance venue".

Dezeen ArchitectureSchemata Architects restores guesthouse nestled in ancient Irish rainforest Japanese studio Schemata Architects has renovated a guesthouse in Dromgarriff Rainforest, Ireland , connecting two existing stone buildings with a timber- and steel-framed yoga studio.

Dezeen ArchitectureOmar Gandhi designs house and studio with "striking silhouette" for furniture maker Omar Gandhi Architects has collaborated with furniture maker Brodye Chappell to build a house and workshop with a corrugated metal facade on Prince Edward Island, Canada .

Dezeen ArchitectureTen homes from the mid-century "time capsule" Studley Park Riverside Modern is a book documenting the mid-century modern homes of Studley Park in Melbourne . In this roundup, its author Jake Taylor selects 10 standout residences from the architectural…

Dezeen ArchitectureOMA to convert Houston coffee plant into music school with instrument-informed architecture Architecture studio OMA has broken ground on the Frank Liu Jr Academy for Music and Arts charter school in Houston , a pre-K through eighth-grade institution housed in a former coffee plant.

Dezeen ArchitectureWheeler Kearns Architects staggers brown-metal house on Lake Michigan shore US studio Wheeler Kearns Architects has completed a brown- metal and limestone house organised around a courtyard on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Michigan , USA.

Dezeen ArchitectureOpenings "dissolve boundaries" at Sable House by Allan Joyce Architects Local studio Allan Joyce Architects used courtyards and covered walkways to connect this charred timber-clad home in Nottinghamshire, UK , to its countryside surroundings.

Dezeen Architecture"Pioneering conservationist" Donald Insall dies aged 100 Architect Donald Insall, founder of Donald Insall Associates and known for his conservation and renovation work, including on Windsor Castle, has died at the age of 100.

Dezeen ArchitectureBIG designs cloud-like Tirana Fountain Plaza raised above public park Cloaked in layers of white disks, architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mixed-use building in Tirana containing apartments , offices , cultural spaces and water features.

Dezeen ArchitectureNot a Hotel to open Not a Museum at Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo ahead of demolition Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel , is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT.

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アジアの今 · What's on view, the homes each region is looking at this week, and what its press is covering — in English

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About

A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo