Tag Archive for "Unedited"

SkyMall, We Hardly Knew Ye

I try very hard to remove judgment from this blog. I run across many homes, buildings, projects, products, apps and other stuff that strike me as crappy, unnecessary or flat out harmful to the maintenance of human life on this.

5 Essential Items for Simple Living

Determining what’s important to you is the most critical step for living an edited life. When our homes, possessions and activities are aligned with our priorities–the things that truly bring value to our day-to-day lives–we often find ourselves getting rid.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Jul 16, 2013
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China Consumerism New Century Global Center Unedited

World’s Least Edited Building Opens in China

What has 18,000,000 square feet of floor area, an artificial beach and a Gap clothing store? If you answered, the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China–now the biggest building in the world as measured by floor space–you’d be correct. The.

Own an Edited Version of Versailles (Some Assembly Required)

Have you ever wanted to own your own Versailles Palace but thought the 720K square feet of floor space just a tad excessive? Well, if you have $65M dollars burning a hole in your pocket, there’s a stateside version of.

Opinion: Would Anyone Ever Aspire to Live in a Micro Home?

This last Friday, the Wall Street Journal launched a new real estate section called “Mansion.” WSJ managing editor Robert Thomson implied in a statement that it wasn’t just about the rich admiring their big homes, saying “We all like to think.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Aug 21, 2012
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Architecture Sharing Systems Space Saving Unedited

What Can be Done with the McMansion?

Some things seem inherently unedited: SkyMall catalog, Big Gulps, Hummers. And in the housing world, nothing says unedited like a McMansion. Their flabby floor-plans, 4 car garages and 1K sq ft foyers epitomize more-is-less living. That said, now that they’re here,.

See the World’s Least Edited Home

Q: What costs $1-2B, has 27 floors, 49K square feet (roughly 117 LifeEdited apartments) requires a staff of 600 people and houses a family of four? A: Antilia, the world’s largest, most expensive single-family residence. [nggallery id=8] Antilia was.

David Friedlander
Products
May 3, 2012
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10 Mono-Function SkyMall Products for the UnEdited Life

While the world is littered with things that don’t promote living an edited life, few things are as baldly contradictory as SkyMall. The in-flight catalog presents countless ways to flip the LifeEdited credo on its head, i.e. “design your life to.