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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敦化大楼 / Oyler Wu Collaborative

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敦化大楼耸立于台北主要林荫大道之一旁，楼高 17 层。项目通过材质、几何形状与可持续设计的巧妙结合，重新定义了高层住宅的类型学。大楼独特的 L 形平面布局创造出两个对比鲜明的立面——一面纤细且比例优雅，另一面则更为宽阔且气势非凡。这种设计使建筑能够动态地呼应其城市脉络，同时为住户争取到最大程度的自然采光与景观视野。

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