More venues and cafés are opening in the shells of closed ironworks. Buildings that were once factories are gaining new uses.
The aesthetic left by factory architecture
Features of factory architecture — high ceilings, exposed walls, large doors — are often left intact and reused as-is for the aesthetic of new cultural spaces. These spaces bring traces of industry in as interior elements.
Borrowing a look versus continuing an industry
But an increase in spaces that borrow a factory's look and the continuation of this neighborhood's actual metal-processing industry are different questions. One increasing does not guarantee the other, and not mistaking the two for the same trend is how to see this neighborhood accurately.