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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District Six 归还安置住宅 / Jakupa Architects and Urban Designers

October 13

第六区归还安置住房项目（District Six Restitution Housing Project）为返回开普敦市中心的土地索赔者提供了 108 套住宅。该项目的设计灵感源自历史悠久的第六区。在 1966 年遭受强制拆迁之前，这里曾以亲切的街区尺度、充满活力的公共生活和紧密的社区纽带而闻名。

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