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Can they be converted into huge units with an open floor plan and bathroom/kitchen near the center? If someone can figure out how to make it look cool, office

Can they be converted into huge units with an open floor plan and bathroom/kitchen near the center? If someone can figure out how to make it look cool, office conversions could be the 2020s version of the warehouse loft.

kelseyfrog 4y ago
Sublime. All of the people who hated working in an open office are screaming at the idea of living in one.
- MiddleEndian 4y ago
  The corporate commune!
- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  I am very over getting together in people’s open plan kitchen + living/family/dining room homes and being unable to have a conversation because 10 people’s voices are bouncing around one room with 10ft ceilings when there is enough space for 2 or even 3 separate rooms. And the TV volume is on for some reason. And the exhaust above the stove is on. And the kitchen faucet is running.
  - kelseyfrog 4y ago
    A lot of those conversations could have been just an email.
    - mitchdoogle 4y ago
      nice
Finnucane 4y ago
19h century brick and concrete industrial buildings weren't built the same way. Or, obviously, to the same height. It's much easier to just gut them to the shell and then add in your modern amenities.
somethoughts 4y ago
Half jokingly - I wonder if that is what sorta is in the works with Adam Neumann's latest project - Flow. Definitely seems similar to how the original WeWork offices were started - transforming unused loft safe into high end but communal office space. It'd probably be more like an extended stay hotel (just rooms on most floors) with a common restaurant. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/08/17/adam-neumanns-flow-a16z-crypto/?sh=330743b23a28 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/08/17/adam-neum... "When Adam Neumann revealed his new venture to WeWork-ify the residential real estate sector Monday, backed by a $350 million≥."
zanny 4y ago
It should be doable to take each floor and put a kitchen / bathrooms / storage in the middle with living space around the exterior windows with connecting hallways. On larger buildings split it in half or quarters (the only issue then becomes stair access, which is often along the edge of a building and would need a hallway from a central elevator). You might have some odd bedroom arrangements with long narrow rooms to get some outside light in each, but I don't think its unworkable.

kelseyfrog 4y ago

Sublime. All of the people who hated working in an open office are screaming at the idea of living in one.

MiddleEndian 4y ago
The corporate commune!
lotsofpulp 4y ago
I am very over getting together in people’s open plan kitchen + living/family/dining room homes and being unable to have a conversation because 10 people’s voices are bouncing around one room with 10ft ceilings when there is enough space for 2 or even 3 separate rooms. And the TV volume is on for some reason. And the exhaust above the stove is on. And the kitchen faucet is running.
- kelseyfrog 4y ago
  A lot of those conversations could have been just an email.
  - mitchdoogle 4y ago
    nice

Finnucane 4y ago

19h century brick and concrete industrial buildings weren't built the same way. Or, obviously, to the same height. It's much easier to just gut them to the shell and then add in your modern amenities.

somethoughts 4y ago

Half jokingly - I wonder if that is what sorta is in the works with Adam Neumann's latest project - Flow. Definitely seems similar to how the original WeWork offices were started - transforming unused loft safe into high end but communal office space. It'd probably be more like an extended stay hotel (just rooms on most floors) with a common restaurant. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/08/17/adam-neumanns-flow-a16z-crypto/?sh=330743b23a28 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/08/17/adam-neum... "When Adam Neumann revealed his new venture to WeWork-ify the residential real estate sector Monday, backed by a $350 million≥."

zanny 4y ago

It should be doable to take each floor and put a kitchen / bathrooms / storage in the middle with living space around the exterior windows with connecting hallways. On larger buildings split it in half or quarters (the only issue then becomes stair access, which is often along the edge of a building and would need a hallway from a central elevator). You might have some odd bedroom arrangements with long narrow rooms to get some outside light in each, but I don't think its unworkable.