Dive summary:
- Take 29,000 abandoned square feet of warehouse, replace steel overhead dock doors with hundreds of square feet of glass-paneled ones and layout offices, and you get Freight, a revamped industrial building that joins similar efforts in an area north of downtown Denver.
- The original paint and markings of the loading docks were left, along with the rubber truck bumpers and the deep overhangs that protected merchandise during loading and unloading in the heyday of the building erected in the mid-20th century.
- Inside, however, the spaces are highly adaptable to the needs of businesses, and a sculptural plywood wall weaves beneath open girder work and ducts to create internal entrances for each tenant.
From the article:
Tenant spaces were arranged from a kit of industrial components and materials included reused glass panels from a hockey rink as internal partitions, salvaged bowling alley floors for benches, tables and counters, and industrial shelves in a variety of configurations....