loft building

American  

noun

1. a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.

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Example Sentences

OpenAI occupies a historic three-story loft building, originally built as a luggage factory in 1903, three years before the earthquake and fire that consumed much of San Francisco.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

Kevin LaBranche says he lives in a loft building in downtown Kansas City and luckily was home when his new iPhone arrived and he got a notification from Amazon.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2018

A developer wants to build a 17-story, 62-unit condominium project on the lot, incorporating an adjacent four-story tenement and five-story loft building, home to Adorama, the venerable camera shop.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2016

You wait with a friend and two strangers in front of a loft building on the industrial outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2015

The place in which he worked was a tall loft building; she believed he was employed in some sort of chemical laboratory.

From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Marlowe, Amy Bell