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A 100-Year-Old Church Transformed Into A Skate Park Painted With Colorful Graffiti
A historic church in the Spanish city of llanera was transformed into a skate-park earlier this year by La Iglesia Skate; titled Kaos Temple, it has now undergone a second, more colorful transformation at the hands of street-artist Okuda San Miguel.
In collaboration with Red Bull, Okuda filled the church with bright, isometric, paintings. Verkami describes some of the work: “His iconic artistic piece Kaos Star represents a colorful and isometric rose of the winds that tries to tell us that it does not matter were you are, or what you are doing, what matters are your own goals.”
More info: okudart.es | verkami.com | Facebook (h/t: ufunk, designboom)
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Image credits: La Iglesia Skate
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Image credits: La Iglesia Skate / Red Bull Media
Image credits: Red Bull Media
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Image credits: La Iglesia Skate
Image credits: Red Bull Media
Image credits: Red Bull Media
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Image credits: La Iglesia Skate / Red Bull Media
Image credits: La Iglesia Skate
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SusannaVesna 10 years ago
Amazing ways to recycle religious sites that would otherwise turn into ruins and dust
RuthT 9 years ago
My nefew is a skater and he would love to see this place in person.
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DariaB 10 years ago
This turned out very nice. I'm just curious what happened to the century old church treasure, like, you know, the statues we see at the altair. Just a thought.
SofiaBellavista 10 years ago
When the clergy abandon a church they take everything valuable away, leaving the building empty
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SofiaBellavista 10 years ago
Fantastic work, much better this than letting the building crumble into pieces!BTW, abandoned churches get deconsecrated by the clergy...
BrendaDahl 10 years ago
Check out the Church of 8 Wheels in San Francisco. It's an old church converted into a roller disco. http://churchof8wheels.com
ShereenSeyam 10 years ago
Tha art is stunning...however, I cannot accept that a church be transformed to a play ground :/
JasperLloyd 10 years ago
Exactly. We actually learned today in my religious bible school that going to church means nothing. You may be an unsaved person going to church and some people will believe you are saved just by doing that. While a place of worship is appreciated by God, there is no disrespect to him if construction was made on an old abandoned church in the purpose of providing people a place to have fun. This was not done against Christ and the purpose of reconstruction was not done to smear His name. Calm yourself.
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AlicjaMaciejewska 10 years ago
I don't mind to rearrange old churches' spaces (and those graphitti are really awesome), but some places need to be respected and giving couches in chancel is a kind of profanation for me =/
SusannaVesna 10 years ago
Amazing ways to recycle religious sites that would otherwise turn into ruins and dust
RuthT 9 years ago
My nefew is a skater and he would love to see this place in person.
Load More Replies... DariaB 10 years ago
This turned out very nice. I'm just curious what happened to the century old church treasure, like, you know, the statues we see at the altair. Just a thought.
SofiaBellavista 10 years ago
When the clergy abandon a church they take everything valuable away, leaving the building empty
Load More Replies... SofiaBellavista 10 years ago
Fantastic work, much better this than letting the building crumble into pieces!BTW, abandoned churches get deconsecrated by the clergy...
BrendaDahl 10 years ago
Check out the Church of 8 Wheels in San Francisco. It's an old church converted into a roller disco. http://churchof8wheels.com
ShereenSeyam 10 years ago
Tha art is stunning...however, I cannot accept that a church be transformed to a play ground :/
JasperLloyd 10 years ago
Exactly. We actually learned today in my religious bible school that going to church means nothing. You may be an unsaved person going to church and some people will believe you are saved just by doing that. While a place of worship is appreciated by God, there is no disrespect to him if construction was made on an old abandoned church in the purpose of providing people a place to have fun. This was not done against Christ and the purpose of reconstruction was not done to smear His name. Calm yourself.
Load More Replies... AlicjaMaciejewska 10 years ago
I don't mind to rearrange old churches' spaces (and those graphitti are really awesome), but some places need to be respected and giving couches in chancel is a kind of profanation for me =/
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