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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Casa Ibitipoca / Gávea Arquitetos

October 15

Ibitipoca 住宅诞生于“再利用”的逻辑。面对位于巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州（Minas Gerais）伊比蒂波卡山脉（Serra do Ibitipoca）的一栋废弃旧建筑遗址，该项目从拆解工作入手，旨在保护、重组现存的材料与痕迹，并将其重新融入当下。设计并未抹去先前的建造痕迹，而是将其转化为新住宅的物质与概念源泉。

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