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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即使是人工建造的场地，随着时间的积累，也能融入自然景观之中。地形、植被、光影和季节更替建立起一种独特的秩序，而建筑便在其中找到了自己的位置。该会所的设计初衷并非将其作为一个远眺周边的孤立主体，而是作为一个介质，让人们通过地形、视线以及内外关系来感知场地。设计始于对这种内在秩序的观察，并探索建筑如何与之产生共鸣。

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