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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Claranet 是一家 IT 公司，为欧洲和巴西的企业客户提供网络托管和托管应用服务（混合云托管）。本事务所受邀为其设计葡萄牙总部，项目选址于一处旧军用仓库。该仓库本身建于 17 世纪的格里拉斯修女院（Grilas Sisters' convent）遗址之上。该修女院在 1755 年的大地震中幸存，但未能免于 1834 年宗教团体的消亡。此后，它成为国有财产，并于 1897 年被改建为军事仓库。

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