A 100-Year-Old Church Transformed Into A Skate Park Painted With Colorful Graffiti
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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
Before and after
Image credits: La Iglesia Skate / Red Bull Media
Image credits: La Iglesia Skate
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Amazing ways to recycle religious sites that would otherwise turn into ruins and dust
this is amazing I would love to visit this place its beautiful
My nefew is a skater and he would love to see this place in person.
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.
When the clergy abandon a church they take everything valuable away, leaving the building empty
I see.... Thank you!
they were probably moved to somewhere safe, like the Vatican or another church. they didn't throw it away, no way.
Well, yeah, I thought so. I mean, I didn't think they'd be thrown away, but I considered the possibility someone might have taken some of it home, as a souvenir, which, honestly, wouldn't be that bad either. But as I said, I was literally just curious.
I hope!
Amazing ways to recycle religious sites that would otherwise turn into ruins and dust
this is amazing I would love to visit this place its beautiful
My nefew is a skater and he would love to see this place in person.
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.
When the clergy abandon a church they take everything valuable away, leaving the building empty
I see.... Thank you!
they were probably moved to somewhere safe, like the Vatican or another church. they didn't throw it away, no way.
Well, yeah, I thought so. I mean, I didn't think they'd be thrown away, but I considered the possibility someone might have taken some of it home, as a souvenir, which, honestly, wouldn't be that bad either. But as I said, I was literally just curious.
I hope!