I prefer to see failed pubs here in England turned into McDonald's restaurants and Tesco shops rather than having them bulldozed and uglier buildings put up...

These transformations get less uplifting and more depressing as one scrolls down.

In my city (which is super big on local history and was settled in the mid-1600's), there's an old Citizens National Bank that was built in 1877. In 1979 it was turned into a restaurant called Freestones. They kept the old vault doors, and made the inside of the vault a semi-private dining room with only 4 tables. It's such a cool building, inside and outside.

in France they use Bordeaux old german uboot base for art exibits. like Hitler bunker, the thing would be just too costly to destroy (https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0xd5528f48803414b%3A0x4cef388c969254b7!3m1!7e115!4s%2Fmaps%2Fplace%2Fbordeaux%2Buboot%2Bshelter%2F%4044.8707716%2C-0.5599891%2C3a%2C75y%2C135.92h%2C90t%2Fdata%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sTmjrpFwTMuOQP1JhLvwHfw*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0xd5528f48803414b%3A0x4cef388c969254b7%3Fsa%3DX!5sbordeaux%20uboot%20shelter%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e2!2sTmjrpFwTMuOQP1JhLvwHfw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl4qTo7cTxAhWO4YUKHRYnB5sQpx8wG3oECFsQCA)

I went to this restaurant that used to be a bank. Now the vault is just used for storage I guess, but the door looks super cool.

In the UK there's a chain of wine bars I used to work for called All Bar One, and one in particular bar I helped out at was originally a bank, then it became an All Bar One with the headquarters above it. Then they sold the building and it became a bank again.