21 astonishing repurposed buildings
Imagine if one day you sell your home and later discover it was transformed into a communal garden? Or how about going on a drive and seeing that a former ranch has been turned into a gigantic hotel complex?
It's amazing what the construction industry does with buildings or lands: schools turned into hospitals, office blocks that become leisure centers... Welcome to the world of repurposed buildings and the extraordinary imagination behind them!
1. When your house was once a police station and your bathroom is a former cell, complete with the original window
2. A house that was once a bank and the vault has been transformed into a storage room
3. This college campus was once a shopping mall
4. When a school becomes an apartment block
5. A grain silo that was turned into student housing
6. Once upon a time this was a hockey arena
7. Another former bank, now a pharmacy with a "healthy" vault!
8. And this bank is now a library
9. A fitness center in a former bank
10. A former railway workshop that's now a restaurant
11. This bar was once a morgue!
12. A former car wash
13. A Paris train station that became a McDonald's
14. Meanwhile in Budapest, McDonald's also moved into a train station
15. A huge hangar in Krausnick, Germany was transformed into a waterpark
16. Old Glory Bar was once an industrial laundromat
17. A church in Zwolle (Holland) that became a library
18. Liberty Hotel in Boston was once a prison
19. When a shopping mall becomes a company's head office
20. A theater in Venice that was transformed into a grocery store
21. An old theater in Detroit was turned into a car park
By Straker Julia
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Passionate about writing, I write articles on the subjects that I love. Creativity and Animals themes are my favorites!
