This house in Lorne in Australia by Whiting Architects sure makes a bold statement.

2016 has gone off to a shaky start with big losses on the stock markets, oil prices in free fall and persistent security fears.

This converted warehouse loft in Athens by Ese Studio shows how industrial style spaces can be softened with clever design touches.

Many urban dwellers dream of escaping to the country but struggle to reconcile their urban aesthetics with the bucolic offer of thatched cottages and converted barns.

Industrial style lofts are not usually associated with open green spaces, which is why this penthouse apartment in a former caviar warehouse in New York is so refreshing.

Already fed up the hype and hysteria surrounding Christmas?

If a loft apartment is the ideal canvas to create an industrial look, then concrete must be the material of choice.

Architects and designers have long favoured concrete as a construction material, partly due to its versatility and cool industrial aesthetic.

This week on Property Watch we are back again in our favourite hunting ground around the fringes of the City of London, with its rich historic heritage and diverse range of properties.

Think of the wild West in America and one immediately gets the vision of wide open space and a sense of splendid isolation which evokes the spirit of pioneering adventurism.

Loft apartments often fall all too easily into the cliche industrial look with endless exposed brick walls, cast iron beams and polished concrete floors.

Vivarium, Latin for "place of life", evokes images of glass terrariums filled with exotic plants.