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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东潮度假屋 (Đông Triều Retreat) / NAQI & Partners

September 18

东潮度假屋（Dong Trieu Retreat）是一组坐落于越南广宁茂密景观之中的微型建筑群。该项目最初仅规划为哈龙市（Ha Long）一个家庭的周末度假小屋，后来逐渐演变成为他们的永久居所。在这片场地中，我们受托设计了几个用于修复与焕活身心的空间，包括：厨房与餐厅区域、一间茶室、一间桑拿房，以及一座俯瞰睡莲池的冥想亭。

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