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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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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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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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今津康夫 / ninkipen!による、兵庫・豊岡市の「渋谷料理店」。温泉街で既存民家を転用する計画。カウンターを“店主の舞台”と捉え、“職人の矜持”の表現を意図して“鉄媒染で漆黒に染めた杉板”で構築。新設の大きな窓には“賑やかに語らうシルエット”を浮かび上がらせる

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今津康夫 / ninkipen!が設計した、兵庫・豊岡市の「渋谷料理店」。温泉街で既存民家を転用す

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