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[LongTomH]

Great article from Gizmodo on the new apartment designed by Graham Hill, founder of Treehugger.com. Hill has designed a tiny apartment, very appropriate for New York or most crowded urban areas, that has a small physical and environmental footprint.

When you walk in, you encounter what is, at first glance, a small studio apartment. Within that cube are actually 8 functional spaces. The living room and office become the bedroom with a tug of a bookshelf. Open one of the closets and you'll find 10 stackable chairs that go around a telescopic dining table for large dinner parties. An entire guest room with bunk-beds and a closet is revealed behind a wall that slides out on tracks. And of course, a well-equipped kitchen and bathroom await.

There's a gallery of various rooms and features, as well as a video where Hill himself takes you on a tour of his tiny, but very liveable pad.

Could this be the future as more and more of us become urban? If so, it looks very comfortable.