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Tato Architects combines skinny home with ceramics studio in Kyoto

Dezeen ArchitectureTato Architects combines skinny home with ceramics studio in Kyoto Skylit ceilings and zigzagging staircases animate this tall, skinny home and ceramics studio in Japan, completed by local studio Tato Architects. Named House and Studio in Kyoto, the project was designed as a combined wo

McDonald's Japan Supersizes the Tsukimi Burger Into a 27-Inch Plushie

Hypebeast DesignMcDonald's Japan Supersizes the Tsukimi Burger Into a 27-Inch Plushie Summary McDonald's Japan is running a lottery for a giant Tsukimi Burger plushie tied to the sandwich's 35th anniversaryThe soft toy measures 27.6 inches across and faithfully recreates the burger's signature layersEntry

why entering the japanese design market requires more than exporting nordic aesthetics

Designboomwhy entering the japanese design market requires more than exporting nordic aesthetics elna nykänen andersson explores how shared values and deep cultural translation connect finnish craft with japanese rituals.

29CM × LOFT Pop‑Up Connecting Record & Taste

Monthly DesignKorea29CM × LOFT Pop‑Up Connecting Record & Taste

why japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes

Designboomwhy japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes across japanese cities, tiny urban houses carve parking directly into their plans and sections to create a car-sized void.

Asian Flavors in Contemporary Architecture | The First Bricks

ELLE Decoration VietnamVietnamAsian Flavors in Contemporary Architecture | The First Bricks

This Stunning Resort Built Into an Island Marks a New Wave of Japandi Design

Architectural DigestThis Stunning Resort Built Into an Island Marks a New Wave of Japandi Design “The whole place is kind of a Scandinavian architect’s fantasy of a Japanese villa,” says AD100 architect Bjarke Ingels of his recent project

Explore these spaces fusing Danish and Japanese design

The SpacesExplore these spaces fusing Danish and Japanese design We've been inspired by the new Hikari district in Copenhagen

A Deep Roofline Shapes This Hillside Home in Osaka

Design MilkA Deep Roofline Shapes This Hillside Home in Osaka At Moment, APOLLO Architects & Associates uses six-foot-deep eaves and a perimeter wall to balance privacy, shelter, and openness on a sloping site

Ivy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal.

YellowtraceIvy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal. Occupying the ground floor of a Montreal's downtown high-rise, Minnibar by Ivy Studio is a restaurant and café that pairs a contemporary Italian menu with the atmospheric principles of Japanese minimalism. Concrete floor

Kii uses local limestone and colourful "melting" stools for SR Ice Cream Miyakojima

Dezeen InteriorsKii uses local limestone and colourful "melting" stools for SR Ice Cream Miyakojima Architecture studio Kii has designed an ice cream shop on Miyakojima Island, Japan, featuring a pink ceiling, a limestone counter and perforated concrete tiles. Called SR Ice Cream Miyakojima, the cafe and ice cream shop

Rumah Rubah by Maximilian Jencquel: Where Japanese Restraint Meets Balinese Craft

YatzerRumah Rubah by Maximilian Jencquel: Where Japanese Restraint Meets Balinese Craft Maximilian Jencquel's Rumah Rubah weaves Japanese restraint with Balinese craftsmanship amid a lush Bali garden. Explore this tropical hideaway.

Japandi-Inspired Summer House In Sweden

Nordic DesignJapandi-Inspired Summer House In Sweden A modern, minimalist retreat.

Asia now

アジアの今 · What's on view, the homes each region is looking at this week, and what its press is covering — in English

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Homes this week the newest rooms from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How Asia lives in 2026 from the region's own trend reports

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About

Uchi (内) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about interiors and the way people live, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

Uchi means inside, and it means home: the room you return to. A magazine, because every week one idea about living deserves to be read slowly. A radar, because we count what the homes and studios of the world are talking about right now — light, timber, colour, small rooms, the kitchen — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We look east first. Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hanoi, Bangkok, then Copenhagen, Milan and New York: the apartments, houses, cafés and hotels where interiors are actually being decided. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Uchi will keep changing: new sources, new signals, a little better each week, never finished. If a room here made you want to move a chair, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。