Diana Mosher is a contributing writer with Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News. She writes about a range of real estate and design topics including development, architecture/design, marketing/business development and property management/operations/tech. Mosher joined MHN as editor in chief in 2005. She has been a contributing editor to the CPE-MHN team since 2016.
Green Apartment Design: ‘Animated Apertures’ Blur the Divide Between Indoors and Outside
A team of Los Angeles architects hopes to make a few drastic changes to the edifices that we call apartment buildings. Strangely enough, they are starting with the windows.
Reaching for The Cloud
Companies are adopting cloud computing for benefits that begin with hardware and software savings, and extend into areas like space utilization, redundancy and security.
MHN Interview: Micro Apartment Designer on Living Large in Tiny Spaces
The LifeEdited concept embraces technology and smart design to live a happy life with less stuff, less space and less waste.
White Paper: Multifamily Manufactured and Modular Construction
Modular manufacturing can offer the opportunity to conduct a meaningful portion of the construction in more competitive labor markets using sheltered, assembly line techniques, thus allowing task-skilled fabricators to conduct much of the building process without formal construction-trade training and apprenticeship.
Slideshow: 420-Square-Foot Apartment Done Right
An acute lack of inventory and soaring rents are providing New York City developers with an opportunity to turn the concept of living in small apartments into an art form. One such developer, LifeEdited, was launched in 2009 by Graham Hill, a trained architect turned entrepreneur who believes in simplifying life and living large in tiny spaces. LifeEdited’s 420-square-foot SoHo apartment exemplifies the developer’s concept: use technology and smart design to live a happy life with less stuff, less space and less waste. Dubbed LifeEdited1 (or LE1), the tiny apartment has the functionality of a 700-square-foot apartment thanks to a…
How Socially Responsible Are Your Apartment Communities?
Afghanistan is frequently in the headlines, but many Americans know very little about this distant and mysterious land. Connie Duckworth wants to change all that.
Advanced Submeters Reveal Savings Opportunities for Multifamily Housing
The Internet is now used to track and analyze “big picture” electrical consumption (kWh) and demand (kW) from a single circuit to multiple sites around the world.