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Banyan Tree Mount Emei Brings Quiet Luxury to UNESCO-listed Mount Emei

Home JournalHong KongBanyan Tree Mount Emei Brings Quiet Luxury to UNESCO-listed Mount Emei CCD / Cheng Chung Design (HK) brings a quietly contemporary sensibility to Banyan Tree Mount Emei, drawing on Mount Emei’s wooded terrain and the architectural language of Western Sichuan. After 14 years in the making, B

How the Hong Kong Jockey Club is Taking Racing Culture Beyond the Track

Home JournalHong KongHow the Hong Kong Jockey Club is Taking Racing Culture Beyond the Track In Hong Kong, horse racing has always been more than sport. It is part of the city’s social fabric, from the sound of the grandstand to the flash of jockeys’ silks on the turf. As the new season begins, attention returns

【Top 50 SEA 2026】Chat Fores: I Love Projects That Challenge

Home JournalHong Kong【Top 50 SEA 2026】Chat Fores: I Love Projects That Challenge Instinct drives every standout space. For Chat Fores, Principal Interior Designer of Chat Fores Design Studio, creating interiors that speak is a deeply intuitive process. The moment she steps into a room, she immediatel

5 Interior Design Rules for Scale, Proportion and Negative Space

Home JournalHong Kong5 Interior Design Rules for Scale, Proportion and Negative Space Scandinavian, Japanese, quiet luxury, wabi-sabi, and modern minimalism are simply the outward languages of design. What truly determines whether a home feels timeless, practical, and comfortable is its balance of proport

Lighting Design FAQ: Which Lighting Layers Work Best in Different Rooms?

Home JournalHong KongLighting Design FAQ: Which Lighting Layers Work Best in Different Rooms? Good lighting is not simply about having enough brightness. It should make a home safe, practical, and atmospheric at the same time. When planning residential lighting, use three core layers: ambient lighting, task light

Jean Jullien Checks In at Janu Tokyo with 10 Paper Guests

Home JournalHong KongJean Jullien Checks In at Janu Tokyo with 10 Paper Guests Jean Jullien brings his playful PAPER PEOPLE to Azabudai Hills for a limited-run hotel takeover. Tokyo’s best hotel stays tend to offer more than a handsome room and an efficient breakfast. This time, Janu Tokyo is addin

Home Journal Awards 2026 Final Call for Entries

Home JournalHong KongHome Journal Awards 2026 Final Call for Entries Entries for Home Journal Awards 2026 close on 4 September 2026. With the submission deadline fast approaching, Home Journal Awards 2026 invites the design community to put forward the projects, products and ideas that ha

MAD Architects Transforms a Rotterdam Warehouse into Fenix, a Museum of Migration

Home JournalHong KongMAD Architects Transforms a Rotterdam Warehouse into Fenix, a Museum of Migration The museum brings together a century-old harbour warehouse, global migration stories and a reflective spiral staircase that rises above Rotterdam’s waterfront. Rotterdam’s relationship with migration is embedded in its g

Inside a 2,000 sq.ft Duplex in the New Territories Defined by Quiet Luxury

Home JournalHong KongInside a 2,000 sq.ft Duplex in the New Territories Defined by Quiet Luxury Light woods and soft neutrals bounce light around, keeping the space bright, calm and quietly polished. Luxury in this home is a quiet confidence tucked into the details, not something that demands attention at first gla

【Top 50 SEA 2026】Lim Thong: Good Spatial Design Can Remove Small Daily Frictions And Improve How We Live

Home JournalHong Kong【Top 50 SEA 2026】Lim Thong: Good Spatial Design Can Remove Small Daily Frictions And Improve How We Live A true home is a quiet sanctuary. For Lim Thong, Design Principal of LA Design Studio, this belief stems from a childhood spent exploring work sites alongside his father. Today, the second-generation designer leads the S

Yayoi Kusama, the Artist Who Turned Dots into Infinity, Dies Aged 97

Home JournalHong KongYayoi Kusama, the Artist Who Turned Dots into Infinity, Dies Aged 97 Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist whose polka dots, pumpkins and mirrored installations became a global visual language, has died aged 97. Her studio said she died in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August, having continued to pa

Remembering Le Corbusier, Why His Ideas Still Matter

Home JournalHong KongRemembering Le Corbusier, Why His Ideas Still Matter 27 August marks the anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death in 1965. Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris in Switzerland in 1887, he became one of the key figures in modern architecture—changing not only how buildings looked,

World’s First Upper House Residences: Two Visions of Luxury Living in Bangkok

Home JournalHong KongWorld’s First Upper House Residences: Two Visions of Luxury Living in Bangkok In a city filled with spectacular residences, true luxury lies in finding a home where Bangkok’s energy gently fades into calm. Upper House Residences Bangkok, the world’s first residential expression of the Upper House

Modern Monochrome Interior Design: 5 Rules for Styling Black, White & Grey

Home JournalHong KongModern Monochrome Interior Design: 5 Rules for Styling Black, White & Grey A black, white, and grey minimalist aesthetic has long been a classic choice for modern homes. However, an unbalanced color palette or uniform material selection can make a space feel cold, gloomy, and devoid of warmth.

Ryokan Calm Meets Pet-Friendly Living in This 600 sq.ft. Apartment

Home JournalHong KongRyokan Calm Meets Pet-Friendly Living in This 600 sq.ft. Apartment A Japanese-inspired home that turns everyday life with three humans and five dogs into a ryokan-like retreat. When home is shared with five dogs and three busy humans, every square foot has to work a little harder –and a

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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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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。