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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Gutiérrez 咖啡馆 / Toro 建筑事务所

October 9

Gutiérrez Café 于 2025 年 8 月在蒙得维的亚的波西托斯（Pocitos）街区开业，其建筑设计方案将设计美学与产品品质置于体验的核心。这不仅仅是一家咖啡馆，更是一个经过精心设计的空间，旨在构建一种感官与城市的双重体验，使建筑本身成为其美食理念中不可分割的一部分。

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