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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由 Nakshabid Architects 设计的卡鲁潘尼亚朗布尔有限公司绿色田野工厂（Green Field Factory of Karupannya Rangpur Limited）荣获 2026 年英国皇家建筑师学会（RIBA）国际奖。自 2016 年设立以来，RIBA国际奖旨在表彰“展现出远见卓识、原创性、卓越执行力，并对其使用者、周边环境和社区做出杰出贡献的建筑”。

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