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<\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0Corcoran Real Estate Group<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA holdover from our roundup of amazing lofts homes<\/a>, this three-story Brooklyn penthouse\u00a0was built in a 99-year-old\u00a0cardboard box factory and clock tower. It can be yours for just $18 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 2008, Leigh Osbourne and Graham Voce bought a 99-foot tall water tower in London for $674,035, and then spent a lot more money<\/a> converting it into the nine-story luxury home you see above.<\/p>\n Located in the Netherlands, this water tower-to-residential conversion also has\u00a0nine levels — as well as\u00a0massive windows and a rooftop terrace. It was designed by Dutch firm\u00a0Zecc Architecten.<\/p>\n Ricardo Bofill’s The Factory<\/a>\u00a0serves as his home and the head office of his\u00a0design firm\u00a0Taller de Arquitectura<\/a>. We previously featured the space’s library in our photos series of the best in-home book depositories<\/a>.<\/p>\n This\u00a0former gas station in New Orleans was available for rent<\/a> through Airbnb for about $440 a night. Unfortunately, the listing seems to have disappeared.<\/p>\n This Berlin\u00a0penthouse belongs to\u00a0Christian Boros, the art collector whose private collection is stored and exhibited in the depths of the concrete\u00a0building which was built in 1942\u00a0as a Nazi\u00a0air raid shelter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Known as the\u00a0Passage Buhan<\/a>, this\u00a0441-square-foot loft\u00a0in Volgograd, Russia\u00a0used to be a single-car garage.<\/p>\n Of course a home converted from an abandoned water treatment plant would look vaguely like a toilet. The six-bedroom residence is located on an eight-acre property in\u00a0Kent, England and boasts two\u00a0rooftop terraces, a heated pool, gym, sauna and cinema room. It can be yours for\u00a0$3.4 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n The mill, which originally had a\u00a0four-story waterwheel, is now a refurbished four-bedroom getaway on\u00a0Timmerman Creek in upstate New York. Much of the original equipment is used as decoration throughout the home.<\/p>\n On his website,\u00a0the owner and designer of this mobile home explains why he decided to live in a solar-powered truck: “Yes, I gave up a lot of stuff…\u00a0But gained freedom. Real freedom. Freedom of movement that allows me to live near the beach, in the beautiful wooded area, or even in the city. Freedom from taxes, electricity, cable companies and corporations.”<\/p>\n This London flat rents for about $740 per week,\u00a0according to former tenant and Reddit user\u00a0meeb<\/a>.<\/p>\n The aptly titled 747 Wing House<\/a>\u00a0is located in a remote section of the Malibu hills overlooking a nearby mountain range and the Pacific Ocean. The project\u00a0was commissioned by a\u00a0client who requested\u00a0“curvy and feminine shapes,” according to architect David Hertz: ”\u00a0It soon became apparent, that in fact, an airplane wing itself could work. In researching airplane wings and superimposing different airplane wing types on the site to scale, the wing of a 747, at over 2,500 square feet, became an ideal configuration to maximize the views and provide a self supporting roof with minimal additional structural support needed.”<\/p>\n Want more residential conversion projects? Take a look at our past collection of churches,<\/a>\u00a0barns<\/a>\u00a0and shipping containers<\/a>\u00a0that have been\u00a0brilliantly transformed\u00a0into comfortable\u00a0homes.<\/p>\n Who wants to live in an old Nazi bunker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":95802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11115],"tags":[11113,11117,6144],"coauthors":[10332],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nA water tower.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos: 1st Option<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nAnother water tower.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0\u00a0Zecc Architecten<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA cement factory.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0Ricardo Bofill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA gas station.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos: imgur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA Nazi\u00a0bunker.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0Freunde von\u00a0Freunde<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA garage.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0Fabre deMarien<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA water treatment plant.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos: Savills<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA grist mill.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos: Waterfall Home<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA work truck.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos: Ilan Nachum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nA warehouse.<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Photo:\u00a0imgur<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nThe wing of a 747.<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a>Photos:\u00a0David Hertz Architects<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n