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industrie en logement

English translation: converting an industrial building into residential accommodation

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French term or phrase:industrie en logement
English translation:converting an industrial building into residential accommodation
Entered by: Howard Cooper

13:26 Nov 7, 2009
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture
French term or phrase: industrie en logement
Dossier argumentaire pour la transformation d’une *industrie en logement* pour artistes.

Sorry, no further context. It's probably a qebecoisme. The author is an urban planner. Any ideas?
Howard Cooper
Local time: 09:45
converting an industrial building into residential accommodation
Explanation:
Surely it's just the way you're parsing it?

I'd have assumed that 'une industrie' meant 'an industrial building' (or possibly 'a factory), and that 'logement' means some kind of residential accommodation (though maybe in FR-CA, it could also simply mean 'accommodation' in the sense of 'studio space', i.e. not dwellings).
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Tony M
France
Local time: 16:45
Grading comment
Love it. Thanks!
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Summary of answers provided
1 +5converting an industrial building into residential accommodation
Tony M
4factories into artists' premises
kashew
4artists' studios, workshops and accommodation
Catherine Gilsenan
Summary of reference entries provided
building
Bourth (X)

Discussion entries: 3





  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +5
transformation d'une industrie en logement
converting an industrial building into residential accommodation


Explanation:
Surely it's just the way you're parsing it?

I'd have assumed that 'une industrie' meant 'an industrial building' (or possibly 'a factory), and that 'logement' means some kind of residential accommodation (though maybe in FR-CA, it could also simply mean 'accommodation' in the sense of 'studio space', i.e. not dwellings).

Tony M
France
Local time: 16:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 143
Grading comment
Love it. Thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes, maybe it's the way I'm parsing it. Many thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Detre: Definitely. Probably means converting a warehouse or other industrial building into artists' lofts.
7 mins
  -> Thanks, John! That's very much what I had in mind
agree  Travelin Ann: into artist lofts - sometimes means both living space and creative space
29 mins
  -> Thanks, Ann! Quite!
agree  Charles Hawtrey (X): Got some down the street from here - tho' they finished up as offices/studios rather than living + creative space because planners had no category to describe what developer proposed. Victory for bureaucracy over common sense!
1 hr
agree  FrenchPhD: yarp...
2 hrs
agree  Evans (X)
22 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
factories into artists' premises


Explanation:
Or, artists' accommodation.
In Andy's case the factory became the Factory!

kashew
France
Local time: 16:45
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 99
Notes to answerer
Asker: I think I'll go more generic (based on the slim context), but you've definately got the gist of it. Thanks!

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
artists' studios, workshops and accommodation


Explanation:
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-07 15:09:27 GMT)
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under one roof

Catherine Gilsenan
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Reference comments


45 mins
Reference: building

Reference information:
INDUSTRIE ... 3. Etablissement industriel
[Larousse Lexis]

From which I take it the word can apply to a factory, also referred to, similarly, as manufacture. I think this usage would be rare in metropolitan French, however; it may be a Quebecism.

Bourth (X)
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 539
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