Just 17 old buildings that have been interestingly repurposed into something new and very useful
It began when someone called Colecaliber posted a picture of their college building that used to be a shopping mall on Reddit.
And it prompted all sorts of comments such as this one from Brad_Brace.
‘That is so awesome. I love buildings repurposed for something completely different than their original function.’
So a whole new subreddit called ‘Repurposed Buildings’ was born and a thing of fascination and beauty it is too.
Here are our favourites.
1. The Liberty Hotel, Boston. Formerly the Charles St jail.
2. Old apartment complex in Saigon now filled with restaurants and boutique stores
3. My school’s library used to be a bank
4. A bank repurposed into a gym
5. Waterpark Tropical Islands in a former airship hangar, Krausnick, Germany
6. Church repurposed into a climbing gym
7. A Theatre Into A Bookstore: El Ateneo Grand Splendid in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires
8. A 100 year old church in Spain, converted into a skatepark. Paintings by Okuda San Miguel
9. A church in St.Louis, Missouri that became an indoor skatepark
10. Industrial laundromat to bar. Old Glory, Nashville, TN
11. Some lucky bastard gets to live in this church
12. A 1930s hotel, now repurposed as McDonald’s in Melbourne Australia
14. This old grain silo in Oslo, Norway is now student housing
15. A Church in Charleston, SC that is now a restaurant
16. Ottawa’s Jail Hostel, each cell converted to a two person hostel room
17. This 19th century chapel converted to a data centre.
