There will be 38 lofts carved out of the old church, every one of them unique, Ms. Emond says. "The units also have a lot more character than a normal loft." ...

Unlike the meticulous spaces they design, Denise Liu and Linus Lam didn’t tinker with the Vancouver loft they purchased eight years ago. “We moved in, unpacked, hung art, and left it,” says Lam.

The person: Geoff Snack, a 37-year-old senior strategist at the design agency Jam3 and instructor at OCAD University The place: An industrial loft in Roncesvalles Geoff had been renting a cookie ...

Bradley and Peter Hüsemann-Odom weren’t specifically looking for a loft—a house with a yard where their pair of vizslas would have room to romp was more what they envisioned—but when a tall ...