{"id":27193,"date":"2015-06-03T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=27193"},"modified":"2019-09-09T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T19:49:19","slug":"adaptive-re-use-loft-style-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2015\/06\/03\/adaptive-re-use-loft-style-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Adaptive Re-Use through &#8220;Loft-Style Living&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With tall ceilings, open floor plans by <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanepoxyco.com\">Epoxy floors nyc<\/a> and often large windows it is not hard to see why people are drawn to loft-style apartments. The term \u201cloft\u201d originally described the warehouse-like storage space on the upper floors of industrial or agricultural buildings. It is now used to describe desirable open-plan, raw, live\/work spaces with an artistic bent. Vancouver has several dedicated websites looking to unite trendy house hunters with their dream industrial-inspired space. So how did spaces meant for heavy labour, commercial storage and drawers full of paper filing become the most desirable place to live?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27198\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Warhol-Factory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27198\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Warhol-Factory-600x406.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: \u201cAndy Warhol at The Factory (ca.1967-1968)\u201d www.phaidon.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Warhol-Factory-600x406.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Warhol-Factory-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Warhol-Factory.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: \u201cAndy Warhol at The Factory (ca.1967-1968)\u201d www.phaidon.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The North American love affair with the industrial loft began with creative New York City artists in the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> Century. Forward-thinking artists were expanding the concept of art with new forms such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. For artists like Andy Warhol, the loft offered a prime location for art-making as well as living. Warhol\u2019s now infamous \u201cFactory\u201d, a name that moved with Warhol through three different spaces, was a large, industrial space used for his films and screen prints as well as entertaining a host of glamorous friends. The open, flexible space, coupled with inexpensive rent, allowed Warhol to pursue all his creative endeavours in one place. As artists like Warhol grew in popularity, galleries set up in the store front spaces below artist lofts, and then wealthy art collectors fell in love with the lofts and began buying them up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27201\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/yoko_toshi1304783640940.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27201\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/yoko_toshi1304783640940.png\" alt=\"Yoko Ono and Toshi Ichiyanagi (at the piano), c. 1960-61. www.studyblue.com\" width=\"439\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/yoko_toshi1304783640940.png 439w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/yoko_toshi1304783640940-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoko Ono and Toshi Ichiyanagi (at the piano), c. 1960-61. www.studyblue.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The association with wealth from chic art collectors, combined with the inherent \u201ccool factor\u201d that came with being a New York artist in the 1950s and 60s led to an undeniable creative desire to inhabit these spaces. For owners of unused commercial heritage buildings, and lovers of heritage alike, this was excellent news. As neighbourhoods change and businesses close there is the inevitable question of what to do with often sturdy, well-built buildings. As businesses require less space, or move to other neighbourhoods, these handsome buildings become redundant. Their adaptive reuse makes them once again economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27199\" style=\"width: 1008px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27199 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;B.C.Tel Building 1915 and 2015&quot;. 1915 image reproduced with kind permission of TELUS, CVA 17-19, AM339-S7, Leonard Frank photographer. 2015 image credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media\" width=\"1008\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy-600x238.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/Best-1915-and-2015-copy-940x373.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;B.C.Tel Building 1915 and 2015&#8221;. 1915 image reproduced with kind permission of TELUS, CVA 17-19, AM339-S7, Leonard Frank photographer. 2015 image credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trend of re-using commercial heritage for loft apartments spread throughout North America. In Vancouver it is seen in our older neighbourhoods, such as Gastown, where the abundance of historic hotels and warehouses have converted well into trendy living spaces. However, the once heavy industrial area of Southeast False Creek, just west of the Cambie Bridge, has a few reclaimed buildings of its own. Inside the above pictured B.C. Tel warehouse, once home to cables, wires and stacks of telephone equipment, there is now a series of well-appointed residential lofts. With the original windows still intact, the exposed brick and wood beams retain the gritty early history of the building. Imported Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/kitchenspike.com\/best-kitchen-faucet-reviews\/\">kitchen faucet<\/a> and polished concrete floors give the units a modern, sophisticated feel that plays well against the character features.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27202\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27202\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"photo credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res-940x627.jpg 940w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/06\/MKPhoto-7490-low-res.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit: Martin Knowles Photo\/Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It may be hard to believe that the luxurious concept of \u201cloft-style living\u201d, now seen in many new developments, originated from paint-covered, often unheated and abandoned factory floors. While original conversions did very little to add the comforts of home, modern conversions in heritage buildings offer character, architectural features and history not seen in the average apartment, and allow the resident to maintain a bit of the creative cache inadvertently popularized by innovative artists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VHF invites you to tour inside The Exchange (former B.C. Tel Building) during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/take-a-tour\/heritage-house-tour\/\">2015 Heritage House Tour<\/a>. On Sunday, June 7<sup>th<\/sup> you can join this self-guided tour of 14 homes, which includes 3 units inside The Exchange. For more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/\">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Research Credit:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Soho History: The Manhattan Cast Iron Neighbourhood&#8217;s Rich New York City Heritage and Artistic Presence.<\/em> <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soho-lofts.com\/soho-history.html\">www.Soho-Lofts.com<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <em>Gastown Loft Living: Low on Privacy, but Rich with History. <\/em><a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bcliving.ca\/home\/gastown-loft-living-low-on-privacy-rich-with-history\">www.bcliving.ca<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> <em>New York&#8217;s Long Love Affair with Loft Living. <a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/03c469e6-dfad-11e0-8e15-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3bTD0zzgR\">www.ft.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> Special thanks to Architect Robert Lemon, principal at Robert Lemon Architect Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With tall ceilings, open floor plans by Epoxy floors nyc and often large windows it is not hard to see why people are drawn to loft-style apartments. The term \u201cloft\u201d originally described the warehouse-like storage space on the upper floors of industrial or agricultural buildings. It is now used to describe desirable open-plan, raw, live\/work<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2015\/06\/03\/adaptive-re-use-loft-style-living\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Adaptive Re-Use through &#8220;Loft-Style Living&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6073,"featured_media":27197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11233,24,35],"tags":[11600,519,309,254,270,317,11598,11599],"class_list":["post-27193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","category-housing","category-spacing","tag-apartments","tag-false-creek","tag-gastown","tag-heritage","tag-history-2","tag-housing-2","tag-loft","tag-lofts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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