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January 22, 2013January 22, 2013

“My Micro NY” Named Winner of adAPT NYC Competition

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winner of the adAPT NYC micro-apartment design competition this morning and the winning team is a partnership of Monadnock Development LLC, Actors Fund HDC and nARCHITECTS.

We don’t know a ton of info about the design, entitled “My Micro NY,” but based on the pictures, the team’s 55-unit building will be made from individual prefab modules with adjustable and modular interior layouts that can be adapted with times-of-day and use.

With over 33 teams from around the world competing for the prize, competition was stiff. We at LifeEdited think the design looks amazing and want to wish Monadnock, Actors Fund HDC and nARCHITECTS a big congratulations.

images via flickr/nycmayorsoffice

January 18, 2013

Event: Museum Exhibit Dedicated to Small Space Living

Small space apartment aficionados mark your calendars: Next week, beginning January 23rd, The Museum of the City of New York opens its “Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers” exhibit. The exhibit is co-presented by the museum and Citizens Housing & Planning Council (CHPC) and will show off models, drawings and a mock-up 325 sq ft transforming apartment demonstrating possible futures for smart, compact apartment design. Winning designs of the adAPT NYC competition–the Bloomberg’s pilot program for designing and constructing a multi-unit micro-apartment building–will be on display as well.

New York City expects almost 1M new residents by 2030. A growing portion of these people will be singles, seniors and other populations for whom small, efficient apartments make a lot of sense. Spearheaded by CHPC, the adAPT NYC competition and the Making Room exhibit are rallying the best ideas for how the city and its real estate developers will accommodate them. We suspect this is just the beginning.

If you’re not a New Yorker, fear not, the exhibit runs through September 15th, so you have some time to get there. Barring that, check in with us for news and updates.

May 17, 2012August 23, 2013

Very Brief History of LifeEdited

With a recent piece in the NY Times, we thought it would be useful for those new–and not so new–to LifeEdited to create a short timeline with a few key bits of historical information:

2009

Treehugger.com founder Graham Hill bought 2 tiny apartments (420 and 350 sq ft) in the Soho neighborhood of New York City for the express purpose of making them into the smartest, most efficient, elegant small spaces possible, creating a new type of small, awesome home.

2010

With the help of crowd-sourcing platform Jovoto and marketing firm Mutopo, Graham launched a competition to find the world’s best small-space design. Read more about it here.

2011

Romanian architecture students Catalin Sandu and Adrian Iancu win competition with their “One Size Fits All” design.

Graham Hill speaks about the project at the TED conference (1.3M view to date). Rated one of top ideas of 2011 at TED by Huffington Post.

Construction of the apartment begins in October with Brooklyn-based architecture firm Guerin Glass.

2012

Website launches to show the best in “edited” architecture, design and living.

Graham Hill’s apartment completed in May and featured in NY Times, who dubbed it the “Apartment of the Future.”