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. More than a hundred sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese 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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Florian 住宅 1 号 / Benthem Crouwel Architects

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Florian 住宅 1 号楼（Florian Residence 1）是该项目首栋落成的建筑，标志着一个全新城市街区的诞生。该建筑坐落于毗邻斯洛伐克国家银行的黄金地段，共设有八层，包含商铺、生活配套设施，以及 73 套从紧凑单身公寓到宽敞住宅不等的房型。三层玻璃、高效隔热和声学工程等高技术标准确保了居民的最佳舒适度，而宽敞的大堂和光线充足的中庭则为建筑赋予了真实的空间归属感与社区凝聚力。

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