50 Buildings Repurposed In Such Cool Ways, We Just Had To Share Them With You (New Pics)

I love the look of this one!

Sort of true, as in the building used to be a bank back in the 1860s and still belongs to the Chrissoveloni family of bankers, but they never used it as such. Instead, after they bought it in 1903 and refurbished it was turned into a store and rented out. After the communists came to power and all of their wealth was nationalised in 1948 it was kept a general store and, when they finally regained the rights to the property in the early 2000s, they refurbushed it once more and turned the building into the bookstore it is today.

Beautiful!!

fancy!

Its so pretty

🤣🥰🤣

This isn't true. This is from a Mexican/Chinese fusion restaurant in Phoenix, AZ called Chino Bandito. Www.chinobandito.com

includes diveristy too :D

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That's because the food is "oso" good.

They look so silly!

Love that they kept some of the seats.

Love the seated areas

There is also a an old movie theater in Houston, on Alabama Street that was converted into a book shop. It was very successful. I loved browsing that shop.

Any bookstore is a good thing.

This is on Bonn, Germany.

I really like this one. Great idea .

I've seen these as Sauna's too.

I’ve eaten in one of these in Germany. They set them up to help with social distancing during the pandemic years. People liked them so they kept em.

Those would be cool mini houses

I love this with all my heart and soul.

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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.

I believe this is Austin Community College, in the former Highland Mall.

In Burlington, Vermont the High School is located in what was the downtown Mall.

I think we're seeing this more and more and it's a great idea.

Good idea.

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.

Talk about a baptismal fount.

Heh, better then the original use. I approve of conversions like this!

The humidity will rot that wood and the chlorine will eat everything

I wonder what effect the chlorine will have on the structure of the building

Nice wooden beams!😲

Beautiful, I love cottagecore, I love farmcore, I love this it's gorgeous

But was it ever a real actual working barn? Because this just looks like something built to be a home that looks like it was a barn.

Totally not a fire hazard

The structure and the lines are terrific but it's just a bit too much wood for me - all the furniture too? I'd need a bit of variety at least.

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.