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Portable, Modular, Academic
A couple weeks ago, we looked at Lund University’s scheme for low cost student housing, using innovative micro-houses instead of traditional dorms. Another Scandinavian project is trying to achieve the...
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The World Changing Ten Foot Cube
A new venture called NOMAD Micro Homes has designed a house that features all necessary living functions in a sleek, 10′ x 10′ package. The tiny house can be adapted for PV cells, rainwater collection...
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High Design with Low Cost Materials
If you’re a small space aficionado, you may have seen this 312 sq ft (29 sq m) space by 3XA architects located in Wroclaw, Poland. It features a nice loft bed, kitchen, ample storage, desk and living...
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City Where Architects Dare Not Tread
At LifeEdited, our preference for urban planning leans toward density. As a general rule, greater density is more energy efficient, promotes walking and some even say happiness. But like anything,...
View ArticleWho Am I Without my Stuff?
My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin in 1913. Her mother was Lutheran and father Jewish. Because of her mixed heritage, her family fled Germany in 1933. Her father was a serious antique collector...
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Tiny White Box to Store Your Life In
We hear at LifeEdited have, on occasion, been accused of showcasing small apartments and living spaces that lack life and color. Well, however austere or colorless you thought past spaces have been,...
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NYC Apts Micro in Every Way Except Price
Rather than wait around for micro-apartment developments to spring up in the US’s biggest city, the good folks over at Curbed did a round up of New York’s ten tiniest apartments currently up for sale....
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Fancy and Functional Little Flat by the Sea
The ‘Harbour Attic’ is an apartment designed by Gosplan architects in Camogli, a small seaside village near Genova. The holiday flat began its life as an attic above the old fishermen’s house. The...
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New Micro Apt by LifeEdited
LifeEdited is excited to reveal more details about our upcoming VN Quatá project in São Paulo, Brazil. Working in partnership with VITACON (the developer) and Basiches Arquitetos Associados (the...
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If Versailles Were a Micro-Apartment
Nothing says micro-apartments need be modern in their aesthetic. Cathy Lerebours’ 375 sq ft NYC apartment affirms this point. Rather than being a temple to all things white and symmetrical, the tiny...
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Two Faced Apartment
When conceiving a space, the ergonomics of living are very important–i.e. designing a layout and orientation of rooms that accords with the way we live. But design does not live in a bubble....
View ArticleSmall Rooms Lead to Big Row
Apparently, strong coffee and grey skies aren’t the only commonality between Seattle and Portland. Like its northern neighbor, Portland has jumped on the micro-apartment bandwagon. More specifically,...
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We Talk to Ron Barth of Resource Furniture
We throw the name Resource Furniture around this site with a high degree of frequency. The New York City-based retailer–who also has seven other outlets around the world–has one of, if not the largest...
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Get Your Unreal Estate License
Many cities across the world are experiencing spikes in real estate prices. More people, competing for finite amounts of space lead to ungodly sums changing hands for small bits of urban square...
View ArticleBAM North Site II
The BAM North Site II will be a mixed-use, mixed-income building in the heart of the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District. The building, to be called “EyeBAM,” will be home to Eyebeam and Science...
View ArticleTop 10 Posts of 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, we wanted to take a trip down memory lane (propelled by Google Analytics) to see what you thought was interesting in the last year. The conclusion: many different things. You...
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Only One Pea to this Pod Hotel
Nothing will hide the fact that the “rooms” at Singapore’s new The Pod hotel are not presidential suites at the Ritz Carlton, but they do demonstrate how design and amenities go a long way toward...
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Small Studio Fits Family of Four
A common charge against the “edited” way of living is that its philosophy is hard to apply to a family. The Wagner home, a 630 sq ft Brooklyn studio shared by a couple and their two small children,...
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SRO 2.0 Hits Harlem
We’ve talked a lot about the merits of the SRO (single room occupancy). Throughout the 20th Century, the once-common, small and spartan apartments provided affordable urban dwellings for people looking...
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Dutch Hotel Bares All
There are many rooms that are worthy of being on the cutting-room-floor of architectural orthodoxy: the formal dining room, the foyer and some might even argue the bedroom. But the bathroom? The Lloyd...
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