APARTMENT DESIGN IN HI-TECH OR LOFT STYLE. What is HI-TECH or LOFT style? Let's figure it out. In the meaning of these words and style. Hi-tech (English high-tech) is a style in architecture and design that originated in the depths of late modernism in the 1970s and found wide application in the 1980s. The main theorists and practitioners of hi-tech (mostly practitioners, in contrast to the architects of deconstructivism and postmodernism) are mainly Englishmen - Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Nicholas Grimshaw, at some stage of his work James Stirling and the Italian Renzo Piano. Loft is a utility attic or the upper part of an industrial building (factory, plant, warehouse), including former attics and technical floors converted into housing, workshops, office space or coworking centers. Apartments “stylized” as “loft” are sometimes called neo-loft