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

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隈研吾建筑都市设计事务所设计的哥本哈根水文化中心将于2026年12月5日正式开放

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由隈研吾建筑都市设计事务所联合 Cornelius Vöge 建筑事务所及 Vilhelm Lauritzen 建筑事务所共同设计的 KAI 水文化中心（KAI Water Culture House）将于 2026 年 12 月 5 日在丹麦哥本哈根的纸岛（Papirøen）正式开馆。这一占地 5800 平方米的公共设施融合了十个室内外泳池、康养设施、文化空间，并直通哥本哈根港。

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