What kind of apartments have this...

Question

In the Keri Hilson video for "Energy" she has this really nice apartment and at the end you can see what I think is an elevator...what kind of apartments have that? Is there a name for them? And if you have more information on these types of apartments, please put that in your answer too.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW8wrXjPs5A

--You can see the inside of the apartment at 0:22 to like 0:40.

--And the (what I think is) elevator is at 3:20.

And it was also in the Cheetah Girls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY4QtZnG_mw

--Go to 6:02 (a little different, but the same idea).

Thanks =]

Answer 1

It's called a loft.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loft