ruminations about architecture and design

Saturday, March 10, 2018

real architecture #57


What exactly is "loft living?" The romantic ideal is a struggling artist who rents space in a crumbling factory building in the blasted wasteland of a formerly teeming metropolis. This artist builds a loft out of salvaged lumber with borrowed tools so that he has a retreat from his artistic space. His career takes off and his dwelling becomes the setting of wild parties with cocaine and LSD and the loft becomes the spot for excessive sexual experimentation. Eventually, the city recovers, the neighborhood gentrifies and the building is sold and converted to luxury "lofts" for wealthy hipsters. Everybody wins.

This is a picture of an attic--not a loft.

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