Own the LifeEdited Apartment
You read it right: we are selling the LifeEdited prototype apartment (internally dubbed LE1). The 420 sq ft wonder was the winner of the AIA NY Honor Award as well as the Architizer A+ Award for Small...
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Small Space Wizard of Oz
Australia isn’t exactly a haven of small space living. In fact, they’re the only country with homes larger than the US. But with increasingly high property values and a population consolidating in the...
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DC Mansion Might Go Micro
Every year, the Economist publishes something called the Liveability [sic] Ranking Report. Its rankings are based on their “Liveability Index” as well as a “Spatially Adjusted Livability Index” which...
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Superior Shelter From the Storm
Days after Hurricane Katrina, Michael McDaniel was grabbing a cup of coffee. Pondering how to build a better shelter for the countless displaced citizens, he had an idea: why not make a shelter that...
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Another Cool Small Space
Sometimes we like to come up with novel things to say about interesting small spaces we feature here. We are after their je ne sais quoi–something this space does better than the rest. Today, we’ll...
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Sprawl Messed Up
Forgive us if we seem like anti-sprawl-ites, but evidence keeps mounting that sprawl is neither planet nor people friendly. A study commissioned by Smart Growth America called “Measuring Sprawl and its...
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This Tiny House Might be Where We Park Our Lives in the Future
There are approximately 105,000,000 parking spaces in the United States–five for every car. At least half of all available parking spaces are vacant 40% of the time. That’s a lot of unused space...
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620 Sq Ft, 2 Parents, 2 Kids and Lots of Corian
If you have a decent deal on a home in New York City, you do not relinquish it easily. Neither noise, vermin infestations, nor children are likely to convince you to move. Faced with this latter...
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Little Red Nest, Baby You’re Much Too Fast
It’s a big week for small red spaces here at LifeEdited. First, was su11′s 620 sq ft Manhattan family pad, and today it’s Paul Coudamy‘s Red Nest. In a feat of architectural magic, Coudamy fit a...
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Blast From the Past Architecture that Grows with Your City
Our problems today, more often than not, are the same ones we had yesterday, albeit a day later. As such, designing the optimal urban housing–one that is easy to construct, achieves high density, that...
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Parisian Architects Give Client the Shaft
What do you do with a space that’s tall, skinny and only has light coming from its roof? That’s the question Marc Sirvin and Clémence Eliard of Agence SML set out to answer with Alban Diner’s 28 ft,...
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3 Adaptable, Transforming Office Spaces
Back in the day, most non-manufacturing jobs involved showing up at an office at 9:00am, sitting at a desk for 8 hours and going home (tag a lunch break in there, and no smoke breaks because you puff...
View ArticleCutting the Housing-Car Umbilical Cord
Whether you’re aware of it or not, most homes–or to be more precise, “dwelling units”–require parking. Meeting these requirements is not a big deal in low density suburbs with their copious amounts of...
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Très Petite Maison Parisienne
The stereotypical profile of someone living in a 129 sq ft apartment is a person who might have trouble putting together enough scratch to afford ramen noodles. Therefore the idea that he or she could...
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Camp Rockaway: Your Subway-Accessible Paradise
As summer descends upon the northern hemisphere, thoughts–and bodies–start to run to the beach. But for many, expensive hotels and house-shares make anything more than a day-trip seem a bit out of...
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MIT-Designed 200 Square Foot Architectural Gadget
Two years ago, we reported about MIT’s CityHome. The concept presented a technologically-enhanced way of mating residential interiors with resident needs. In the way someone enters personal preferences...
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Talking to Jay Shafer About Making the Universal House
Few names are as closely associated with small living as Jay Shafer, the man who practically invented what is now known as the tiny house. Tiny houses have become a minimalist design and lifestyle...
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Forget Dumpster Diving. Try Dumpster Living.
“What’s the smallest space you can happily and healthily live in using the fewest resources?”–it’s a question that Professor Jeff Wilson is trying to answer. In his quest for that answer, he’s going...
View ArticleOh Crap. US Census Reports New Homes Got Bigger in 2013
Maybe it’s all the refined carbohydrates. Maybe it’s the need to find storage for that 4K roll pack of toilet paper we got from Costco. Whatever the reason, American homes keep getting bigger–despite...
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George Orwell and Ray Kurzweil’s Architectural Lovechild
A few weeks ago, we looked at CoeLux, a sophisticated LED light that comes close to replicating a naturally sunlit window. The notion of giving advanced technology the duties historically given to...
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