Check Out CO: LifeEdited’s Entry for the adAPT NYC Competition
LifeEdited, as part of a team with Jonathan Rose Companies, Curtis + Ginsberg, Grimshaw and Scape Studios, was honored to be chosen a finalist for the adAPT NYC Competition. Our design was called CO:...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Micro Madness
We’re big proponents of high-density urban living but there comes a point where small-footprint, efficient housing starts looking a whole lot like storage units for humans. Few places fit that bill...
View ArticleStick Your Kid in a Cubby Hole
We’ve seen the work of Jakub Szczesny before, with Europe’s narrowest house. A couple years ago, the Polish architect designed the Tamka Apartment (aka Lucien’s Embassy), a 21.5 sq m (231 sq ft) Warsaw...
View ArticleLive in a Sliver Japanese Style
Japanese architecture proves that necessity is the mother of invention. In order to fit their ample population on the space-squeezed island, homes are designed to fill up every sliver of space, however...
View Article500 Square Feet of East Village Form and Function
This 500 sq ft East Village apartment by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture is a beautiful exercise in space optimization and cleanliness. The client who commissioned the apartment wanted a space...
View Article3/19 Event w/Graham Hill: Small + Shared = Green
If you’re in New York City tomorrow night, March 19, come out to the the Making Room exhibit at The Museum of the City of New York to see LifeEdited founder Graham Hill discuss our project and the...
View ArticleArchitizer A + Award Small Living Winners Announced
LifeEdited is proud to announce that we were given the Jury Award for the Architizer A + Award in the Small Living category. We are less proud–though hardly ashamed–that we were beat out for the...
View ArticleDesigning Cities From Scratch
What makes a perfect city? Walkability? Culture? Great restaurants? Density? Architecture? Diversity? If you could make a city from scratch, how would you design it? Throughout history–from St...
View ArticleThe Smartest Space in San Francisco
Some time ago we saw a video with Patrick Kennedy from the development company Panoramic Interests show us around their SmartSpace 166 sq ft prototype micro-apartment. We gave reports as their building...
View ArticleTetris-Like Office Creates Space, Grants
A couple weeks ago, we talked about how your office will disappear. Well, the office for Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) takes that concept literally. Its designers Taylor and Miller...
View ArticleThey Don’t Get Any Tinier Than This…But No Solar Panels?
We love tiny houses. The trailer-mounted dinky digs, often less than 100 sq ft, epitomize the spirit of doing more with less. This video shows off one woman’s tiny house that’s a wonder of...
View ArticleJapanese Family of Six Thinks Inside the Box
A few weeks ago, we saw how one man conveniently stashed his kid in a cubby in his tiny Warsaw apartment. Several thousand miles away, a husband and wife went a bit further, stowing their four children...
View ArticleMicro-Apartments Stir Not-so-Micro Controversy in Seattle
Lest we think all micro-apartments are high-end, high-tech, highfalutin, transforming thingamabobs, one should go to Seattle to see another, decidedly modest and analogue take on tiny living. That city...
View ArticleLifestyles of the Not-So-Rich or Famous
It’s awesome to look through design and architectural magazines and see amazing homes, designed by world-class architects, filled with gorgeous furniture, made with the highest quality materials and...
View ArticleOne Man Gathers What Another One Spills
Building a home creates an enormous amount of waste. According to the EPA, home construction, remodeling and demolition projects are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the nation’s annual municipal...
View Article12th Century Micro Apartment Complex
Long before adAPT NYC and SmartSpace’s 38 Harriet St in San Fran, there wers tulous, multi-unit Chinese buildings that wrote the book on compact, efficient living. Tulou translates to “earthen house”...
View ArticleSurrey BC Micro Apartments and Choosing Small
One of the latest cities to hop on the micro-apartment bandwagon is the British Columbia city of Surrey. A new development called Balance will offer 56 micro-apartments measuring 290 square feet....
View ArticleSmall Space Design Provides Escape Route for Italian Prisoners
While American prisons relegate their inmates to making jumpers and license plates, Italians are letting their design compact, multifunctional spaces. Educational group Cibic Workshop and design firm...
View ArticleTricycle House Makes Tiny Houses Look Decadent
Sure, tiny houses are tiny, but they seem downright palatial compared to the Tricycle House. The project, part of the Get it Louder Exhibition in Beijing, is collaboration between People’s Architecture...
View ArticleElastic Living Space Perfect Solution for Bloated Home
Clei, Italian master of all things space-saving, presented this concept home entitled Elastic Living at the Milan Design Week in celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary. Similar to the...
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