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Home JournalHong KongHong Kong’s Design Elite Gather for Home Journal Awards 2026 as Entries Hit a Record High Fine wine, live music and exceptional design came together at the seventh Home Journal Awards, celebrating a record year for submissions and the talents behind this year’s winning projects.

Home JournalHong KongHong Kong Home Flooring Guide: 5 Key Durability Comparisons for Wood, SPC, Tiles and Microcement Choosing flooring for a Hong Kong home involves more than appearance. Humid weather, daily wear and cleaning habits all matter.

Home JournalHong Kong10 Hong Kong Projects Make This Year’s MIPIM Shortlist From student housing and heritage-sensitive reuse to major transport infrastructure, 10 Hong Kong projects have been shortlisted at the MIPIM Asia Awards 2026, highlighting the city’s diverse…

Home JournalHong KongBosch Brings Fine Dining into the Kitchen with the Series 8 Steam Drawer and Perfectfit Fridge A private lunch introduces the Series 8 steam drawer to Hong Kong’s design community. A kitchen appliance is measured by much more than its spec sheet—its true value lies in how seamlessly it…

Home JournalHong KongHunter Douglas Draws the Curtains on a Brighter Way to Live With PowerView ® Automation, shades and drapery now work as one, putting light, privacy and comfort at the tap of a finger. Good home design is about more than looks.

Home JournalHong KongNashville’s Pendry Residences Offers Hotel-style Living from HK$9.8M Pendry’s first hotel and residential project in Tennessee is targeting buyers seeking a downtown home with luxury hotel services.

Home JournalHong KongHangzhou’s New BaFang Library Brings Art, Reading and Sport Under One Roof Reading lounges meet vividly coloured sports courts in a 45,000-square-metre complex where paintings inspire the spaces between rest and movement.

Home JournalHong Kong5 Ways to Transform Your Bay Window What can you do with the space by your window beyond displaying plants and collecting clutter? From bespoke cabinets that add storage to inviting reading nooks and relaxing window seats, thoughtful…

Home JournalHong KongDFA Awards 2026 Unveiled, Yung Ho Chang, Sonia Cheng and Wallace Chan Among Five Winners From thoughtful spaces to inventive craftsmanship, the DFA Awards 2026 honours five figures shaping the future of Asian design.

Home JournalHong KongHow to Style a Bedside Table: 5 Tips on Materials, Colour and Storage A bedside table is more than a place to leave your phone and a glass of water. It also connects the bed, lighting and bedding within your bedroom scheme.

Home JournalHong Kong【Top 50 SEA 2026】Alan Barr: Good Design is a Blockbuster Production Each destination has its own character, culture, and rhythm. For Alan Barr, translating these nuances into meaningful guest experiences is the heart of his work.

Home JournalHong KongHow Zaha Hadid Architects is Carving a Canyon into Shenzhen’s Skyline The Yidan Center brings flowing terraces, landscaped gardens and a daylight-filtering façade to a new hub for education and culture. A canyon is an unusual starting point for an urban headquarters.

Home JournalHong KongShanghai Grand Opera House Opens After a Decade in the Making Ten years in the making, Shanghai Grand Opera House has opened on the Huangpu River. With three auditoriums and a publicly accessible roof, the waterfront landmark is as much a destination for…

Home JournalHong KongTokyo’s Sculptural Art Space seeen Harajuku by Kohei Nawa and Sandwich Opens Next Month seeen Harajuku by Kohei Nawa and Sandwich blurs the line between building and sculpture, with a layered louvred façade, cavernous interiors and a spiral staircase.

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

On view

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

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