Chicago Electric Station!

Chicago Electric Station!

Chicago Electric Station!

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The trend of "Industrial Chic" in repurposing old industrial buildings continues to grow as many outgrow their usefulness or in many cases, such as a shopping center or manufacturing plant that close due to hard economic times. Abandoned car showrooms are being turned into new small-scale manufacturing plants for boutique goods, office buildings have become business school classrooms and big box stores have even been turned into artist colonies. The reuse of old industrial buildings as housing in New England and Lower Manhattan in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a starting point for industrial renovation. Today it’s less expensive to repurpose than to tear down a building with existing good bones and start from scratch. But it takes those with vision, a creative eye, lots of imagination and steel-hard commitment to pull it off. Many are attracted to antique facades and the patina of original building materials and others see a space full of options and possibilities to apply their unique stamp, while at the same time paying tribute to and preserving the building’s former history.

Chicago has an excellent example of how Industrial Chic was applied to this one time electrical substation. Now one of the city’s most expensive and glamorous homes, the 15,000-square-foot manse is cutting-edge contemporary with its original Art Deco facade incorporated into the design. With wide open interior spaces, beautiful views and lots of sunlight, the six bedroom, seven bath manse has light wells, terraces, atria, a large front lawn, swimming pool and patio. At over four stories, it has an elevator, a rooftop greenhouse, two kitchens, a fitness space, large wine cellar tasting room and a four car garage. For more information.

One of Chicago’s most expensive homes was once an electric company substation, turned lavish contemporary. Now priced at $13.9 million.

Source: www.kathleen-malone.com