I love the look of this one!

Love that they kept some of the seats.

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I really like this one. Great idea .

I really like this idea. So much better than letting it fall into disrepair or just demolishing it. Seems more do-able than trying to make it into apartments, which would take more expensive infrastructure changes, such as plumbing.

Built in 1893, formerly the Chapel of the Claybury Psychiatric Hospital at Woodford Green in Essex, one hour from London City Center. In 1997 the hospital was shut, and from 1998 to 2004 the whole complex was made part of a real estate speculation: the surrounding park became a gated community for rich a******s, the church and the adjacent recreation hall became a Virgin Active. The chapel was converted into a pool, the hall into a gym, the confessional into a sauna for said rich a******s, who also have access to a 6-holes golf course, an "organic cafe" and a country club, because you cannot stereotype enough with these guys.

Nice wooden beams!😲

St. Liborious in St. Louis, MO. The building is listed as City Landmark and Historical Building, despite being barely 150 years old and not especially significant architecture-wise. It was abandoned years ago, turned into a homeless shelter and then sold to a real estate company. The company didn't have much to do with the space, and leased it to a group of locals to be turned into a skate park. After ten years of lacking maintenance and utter lack of funds, the church and its nearby buildings burned in a fire on June 29, 2023. The fire started from leftover paint and solvents from an "art project" (i.e. graffiti), burned through the roof and interiors, leaving just the walls and the tower standing.

Best transformation of all--from evil to good!

He made it into his office and home. Look for La Fábrica.

There is a church converted into a concert hall/disco in my hometown as well, Toledo. There are so many churches in Europe we don't know what to do with them. I remember there is one that serves as a bike parking in the Netherlands.

Great idea of not letting it go to waste.

It's pretty!

At the risk of being pedantic, this isn't bouldering.

"The manager is behind that door..."

The Barnes & Noble is closed now.

Looks amazing, I bet it's fun

*feels spiders crawling just looking at the wall

Musée La Piscine in Roubaix. Building preservation done right. The 100-years old Art Nuveau masterpiece was not viable as a swimming pool anymore, and at the same time the city had troubles finding a space for some of their precious cultural belongings: a bunch of art and technical collections they inherited from a technical school dissolved during WW2; architectural elements from a magnificent temporary building of the 1913 Universal Expo; artworks by Rodin, Ingres, Chagall and Picasso. With some good management and some EU funds, the two problems solved themselves. At the opening they consistently had three times the expected visitors, and they already had to expand it further.

VISIT THIS. It's amazing and they need all the support they can get to finish the renovations. Also, visit the Palau de la musica Catalana by the same architect, it's in the city center. (the title is misleading though it's not "right down the street"... it's about 20 minutes away)

And all of them can walk on water? 😲

I ain't going in there

There’s one of these in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada! Lovely place, always packed.

Dream sofa

Places like this strike me as being incredibly noisy.

The old Maple Leafs Gardens in Toronto, now a Loblaws.

Some of these people have beautiful windows!

If you talk too loudly, instead of the librarian shushing you , you get locked in a cell.

I believe this is on Powell Ave., in Portland Oregon. https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4970764,-122.6339072,3a,75y,355.18h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sapVBxjf2ez00WpvhfjIO9g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3DapVBxjf2ez00WpvhfjIO9g%26yaw%3D355.17928787264105!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTExMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

I would honestly love to see shopping malls turned into indoor communities. Like retirement communities. Keep the food court, maybe have a pharmacy and a walk-in clinic... the rest of the stores become apartments (with actual walls and doors, though). How cool would that be for residents?!

I always find it weird when interior spaces give me agoraphobia feels.

They turned that Pizza Hut into a Pizza Home.

Who thought that was a good idea?

But, am I able to get my groceries delivered by Express or Priority and with the certified tracking number?

Who would paint a health-related interior this green?!

Cool!

A bank in my town is now a liquor store.

Surprisingly, it feels claustrophobic to me.

Do you suppose they intentionally spelled not "knot" for funzies?

McDonalds doing to architecture what it has already done to food.... Sad

McChooChoo? The building itself is gorgeous though!

Check out the Starbucks in Bergen, Norway. And for that matter, the McDonald's that's across the street. https://en.visitbergen.com/food-and-drink/starbucks-kjottbasaren-p4814613

That's bad. Like, very bad. Vietnamese 1950-60s construction is a hot mess of subpar materials, structural calculations made by eyeballing and "meh, good enough". Retail spaces have much higher crowd loads- and also permanent loads- than residential buildings, so this conversion is very sketchy. There are some high profile cases of building that collapsed after being turned into impromptu malls....

They even thrifted their building

Old McDonald once had a barn..

Looks more like an old fountain than a swimming pool...

Better be testing for other stuff, too 😜

This is sad.

Converting anything into a KFC, McDonalds or any other US junk food franchise is a atrocious

Hey, Søren Schilthauer, where's your negative comment on this one?