Lofts

Loft living - establishing domestic spaces in buildings once constructed for industrial use - is now a social and cultural phenomenon. From their origins as part of a subversive 1950s Manhattan scene, where the avant-garde art community colonized huge, light-filled former workshops, lofts have become a constituent part of the regeneration of run-down industrial areas in cities as diverse as Barcelona, Helsinki, London, Munich, Pars and So Paulo.