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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Eglinton Street by Richard Stampton Architects A conversation across generations, this update to Charles Duncan’s Ramsay House balances whimsy with reverence, bringing play to the process of respectful renovation.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)Lighthouse garden by Steven Clegg Design Unfenced and cascading, the garden around BVN Architecture's Lighthouse doesn’t simply frame the house – it unfurls inside and softens the structure.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)Casa Manyana by Adriano Pupilli Architects Built following bushfire, this freestanding studio in an architect’s front yard is a digitally fabricated model for resilient, adaptable shelter.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)House in Rosebery by Architect George Kitchen and courtyard take centrestage in this cleverly reimagined worker’s cottage, achieving a flexible home for active family life.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)Toorak House by Pop Architecture Precise intervention and delicate restoration revive the kitchen and bathing spaces of a 1970s residence, paying tribute to the original home’s modernist sensibilities.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)Torbreck 2.0 by Kin Architects An apartment inside Brisbane’s Torbreck is immersed in vivid deep-sea hues in tribute to the client’s love for the ocean and to the distinctive modernist building it sits within.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Lillywill Terrace by Sam Crawford Architects On an unusual wedge-shaped site, this clever update to a heritage-listed Sydney residence borrows space from the verandahs to create two shower pods filled with natural light.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Norton Street by Plus Minus Design Attending to the strict rules of an alternative planning pathway and the challenges of a steep site, a pair of new dwellings in Sydney’s east employ clever planning and careful detailing to create…

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Residence 1973 by Studio AB Delighting in contrasts, this Melbourne residence builds a seductive dialogue between the residual glamour of its 1970s shell and the quiet necessities of contemporary life.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Victoria Park Road by Russell with Co A rich and relaxed farmhouse in northern New South Wales hinges around protected outdoor spaces, allowing the setting to become part of the rhythms of daily life.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)House Freddie by Studio Bright This adaptation of a midcentury suburban residence strikes a balance between retention and refinement, resulting in a contemporary home that is seriously joyful.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Alba Apartment by Scott Weston Architecture and Design For their nightclub owner client, Scott Weston Architecture and Design has created a colour-saturated world of rich materials, secret doors and unexpected details.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Meet the owners of Half Light House A transparent addition to a Brisbane home that encircles a shaded pool was named Australian House of the Year at the 2026 Houses Awards.

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Houses (ArchitectureAU)Hislop Hill House by Clare Cousins Architects Harmonising discretion and openness, this Balwyn North home establishes itself as tranquil grounds for a family of four to gather together through its connection to landscape.

Houses (ArchitectureAU)Clifton House by Matthew Crawford Architects A Perth home designed in 1951 by Marshall Clifton, compromised by gradual accretions made in subsequent decades, is reclaimed in a careful and coherent process of repair.

Asia now

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

On view

Homes this week the newest rooms from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How Asia lives in 2026 from the region's own trend reports

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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