Whitney Loft
Award-winning graphic designers and authors of the bestselling book What’s Out There Will Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann are a New York City couple who have recently transplanted their home and office to the renovated Whitney Lofts Building in Minneapolis
The Wrigley Lofts
Originally a gum factory, The Wrigley Building dates back to the early 1900s. Freight elevators complement the industrial motif, and if you’re lucky, a few units have a freight elevator that enters right into the loft!
Apartments at a former sewage treatment plant
Dutch architects have created three exceptional homes in a decommissioned sewage treatment tank.
Chalet On Rails
Architect Antonie Bertherat-Kioes and her family were looking for a house – and found an old transformer station with lots of industrial charm. They have converted it to a fabulous holiday home.
A Visionary’s Loft
This 1930 textile factory in the banks of the Rhine River (19 miles from Cologne, Germany) was brought to life, after almost disappearing in ruins, by visionary entrepreneur Tilman Paas. After falling in love with the property, he led the rehabilitation of the 300,000 square-feet complex.
Belgian loft
Here’s another fantastic loft – this time in Belgium (although the blog is in Polish). Even though the loft is quite large, it is full with many smart and space-saving design ideas that would translate to small spaces, too.
Industrial baroque in Lille
This loft is in an old warehouse building with double (or make that triple?) -height ceiling. I just love how the crude industrial environment, steel beams and concrete interact with the barouque decoration and the lively red of the furniture.
True industrial loft in Budapest
Today’s loft is placed in the former Eastern bloc of Europe, in Budapest, Hungary. On the capital’s outskirts, in a former industrial area an architect have found an old arms factory that he converted to a grand home.
The Brinson Loft
Atlanta-based photographer Rob Brinson has had this loft studio in the King Plow Art Center, a former plow factory from the 1800s, for 23 years now. Today it’s the full-time studio space he always dreamed of when he first became a photographer. He and his wife, Jill Sharp Brinson, stylist, designer and creative director for Ballard Designs, lived there full-time for six years but now use the living spaces as a getaway and a crash-pad for friends and relatives.
Trailer park
What do you do, when you have a large, empty apartment and you want to fill it with something unique? You get something that’s been used for filling for a long time – like a tank from an oil truck. Unusual? At least. Cool? Sure it is!