Photograph by Matthias Heyde  On 26 February 2008 the Svalbard Global Seed Vault officially opened. The seed bank is situated 120 meters (390 ft) ...
The presented project is a two-storey detached house in a seaside village. The house is primarily intended for seasonal use and is designed to meet t ...
Photography by Martin Rijpstra, MVRDV MVRDV have designed a transparent kitchen that’s currently on display at the 2016 Venice Architec ...
Part of an iconic building dubbed Metropolis, this spacious three bedroom and two bathroom loft in Vancouver is an absolute dream for those who love a ...
LifeEdited Maui just debuted in the New York Times! Here is a short description. We?ll be publishing more later this week, so please check back and su ...
As we near the end of summer we?d like to provide you all with the first glimpses of our newest project, LifeEdited Maui. LifeEdited?s CEO, Graham Hil ...
Another beautiful Yves Behar design, the August Smart Lock allows us to open and close our front door with our smartphone. With the ability to c ...
If privacy is ever needed in the LifeEdited 2 guest room/office, pulling the Hufcor accordion door closed certainly does the trick. Usually used in i ...
Graham’s proudest match making moment has come full circle with the addition of the Edyn Garden Sensor in the LifeEdited 2 apartment. In 2013 ...
One of the coziest aspects of the LifeEdited 2 living room/bedroom/dining area is its 100% biodegradable ...
Insteon has made the LifeEdited 2 apartment truly efficient. With their Insteon Wall Switches and Keypad we can control, customize, and even sched ...
The LifeEdited 2 home office / guest bedroom is a classic in space efficiency. Apartment dwellers can work at a large stand-up desk with a 34-inch scr ...
For most of the countertops and surfaces in LifeEdited 2, LifeEdited chose ...
We all want to listen to music and watch movies, but we don?t want the technology to get in our way. Thus for LifeEdited 2, we deployed a very capable ...
Thanks to Kohler, LifeEdited 2’s bathroom is beautiful and eco-friendly. Our favorite feature is the brushed nickel Purist Showerhead and Veil ...
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The light bulb market in America is ever-changing and complicated due to shifting regulations. Even though the U.S. Energy Independence and Security A ...
In building LifeEdited 2, we aimed to create a high quality of life within a small space. The cordless Hunter Douglas Honeycomb Shades helped us do ...
Thanks to photographer Christopher Testani we are pleased to share full photo coverage of Graham’s LifeEdited 2 apartment and many of its fea ...
LifeEdited 2 (LE2) is a prototype for apartments in future LifeEdited buildings. It allows dwellers to live a big, happy, smart, green, and simplified ...
While Europeans are no strangers to communal, urban living, evidenced by things like Baugruppen, the phenomenon is still pretty rare in North America. ...
One of the biggest demerits of suburban living is how they can have an isolating effect on people who live in them. When most suburbanites leave home, ...
We?ve explored bicycle towed trailers in the past. In particular, the Wide Path Camper seemed like a nice execution of the idea. But as a number of re ...
Sure, high tech micro apartments are pretty nifty, but never underestimate the power of good design even with the most meager means. Case in point is ...
Somewhere between now and 1950 (or thereabouts) something went wrong with American housing. Back then, car-fueled sprawl hadn?t yet driven people so f ...
For all the hype around tiny houses, far more people talk and read about them than live in them. We suspect if people were given the opportunity to li ...
We?ve long extolled the virtues of high density, urban living. By keeping things close, you can walk or bike most places, which is better for both phy ...
Have you ever been interested in living in a tiny house, but found most of them too cute" Perhaps you wanted something more imposing, more medieval ...
Techno-urban utopianists predict a future where people will live in plant-covered high rises that spring up like natural organisms. All transportat ...
With an average purchasing price around $23K per square meter, it?s no wonder that some of the world?s most amazing transforming spaces come from Hong ...
As we?ve seen here before, some of the most interesting and innovative projects involving small housing revolves around addressing the needs of the ho ...
We always feel a little bittersweet when we run across people living affordably and microscopically in extremely expensive cities. On the one hand, i ...
The small space conversation is generally in reference to housing size. Yes housing is the single largest category of a person?s spatial use, but it?s ...
The skyscraper is without a doubt the most effective way of adding density to any patch of land. And eVolo?s Magazine?s Skyscraper Competition is an ...
No structure better represents consumer culture like the shopping mall. For those who lived to shop, the mall was their home. But as online shopping b ...
We recently ran across Norwegian company ?Ett rom til? (One More Room) on one of our favorite design sites, Living in a Shoebox. They showed off one ...
There is no shortage of innovative designs that never see the light of day. Furniture, interiors, buildings and products that are so cool in rendering ...
What differentiates a space from a home" We?re not referring to the smell of baked bread or the pencil marks on the door sill marking your child?s gr ...
In a resounding sign that tiny living has hit the mainstream, 84 Lumber, one America?s largest building material suppliers, is rolling out (pun intend ...
Robert Garneau is no stranger to ingenious small space design. The NYC-based architect’s Transformer Apartment, with its host of custom storage ...
More than most North American cities, Vancouver has experienced a surge in housing costs. Apartments are up nearly 20% from a year ago, with the avera ...
One of the drawbacks of having a sealed-off bedroom is that it becomes a non-operational part of the home when not in use, which, for a bedroom, is mo ...
The term ?keeping up with the Joneses? is rarely framed in a positive manner. It refers to a nasty form of one upmanship, where someone is always tryi ...
Lest we forget, car-dependent, suburban sprawl is a very recent phenomenon. For most of human history, living in compact homes in walkable areas was a ...
Necessity, so it is said, is the the mother of invention. And few situations bring necessity to the fore like a disaster. And few disaster housing is ...
There was a time when American single family homes weren?t so absurdly large. In 1950, the average household had 3.83 people and the average new singl ...
Call us a bit jaded, but after a while many tiny houses start to look alike: tiny A-frame structures with eaves and a porch, lots of rustic wood, a lo ...
A reader of ours turned us onto this cool 500 sq ft San Francisco loft recently featured on Design Milk. The space was designed by Charles Irby and Pe ...
A while back we reported about WeLive, the residential arm of the coworking giant WeWork. That post gave some of the spec?s for their Crystal City pro ...
We have posted about numerous folks who have traded stationary homes for RVs. People make this choice for a variety of reasons. They might want to see ...
Unless you?re living in some self-sustaining, off-grid detached house, the fact is that multifamily, multi-storey housing in dense, urban settingsâ� ...
As the year draws nigh and vacations loom, we thought we?d look at 2015’s most trafficked posts published this year (?Build Your Own Murphy Be ...
As micro housing has gained popularity in the last several years, a number of similarly titled articles have been published. The general wording is, ? ...
It?s not news to say that tech is affecting nearly every facet of our existences: how we consume and deliver information, how we communicate, how we g ...
Living in New York City can be many things: exciting, dynamic, culturally rich, god awfully expensive. But one thing it is not for most people is natu ...
There?s been a lot of recent hype about New York City’s Carmel Place (aka ?My Micro?). Rightfully so. It is the city’s first purpose bu ...
If DIY, salvaged material made, moss-covered Hobbit holes aren?t your thing, the VIPP Shelter might just be. VIPP is a Danish product design company b ...
You might have seen us on Yahoo News with Katie Couric. If so, welcome! And now that you’re here, you might be wondering, what the heck is Life ...
In 2011, LifeEdited founder Graham Hill put out a challenge to design his 420 sq ft New York studio. He established an intimidating design brief: he ...
Individual tiny cabins out in the woods are nifty and all, but the architectural form?s real potential lies in community formation. Magic happens when ...
I?ve written here about several all inclusive housing developments that are aimed at so called Millennials. Ollie in New York. WeLive in DC. The Colle ...
