It’s not a secret that humans are creative animals. They always find new ways to reuse old stuff, come up with clever solutions to live comfortably in tiny places, or decide to use their unique DIY powers and save the world altogether.
This time we are stepping into the old spaces that look nothing like their previous selves after having had an inventive makeover, from a grocery store which used to be a hockey stadium to a Brooklyn apartment built in an old church. Call it an architectural wonderland because there’s nothing impossible for these incredible minds. We invite all the fellow Pandas to share your ideas for repurposing old spaces in the comments!
#1 A 100-Year-Old Church In Spain Converted Into A Skatepark
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#2 Hotel I Stayed At Was Formerly A Train Station And Had An Actual Train Inside It, With Rooms Inside Each Car
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#3 This Former Theatre In Buenos Aires Transformed Into A Bookstore
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#4 The Building Used For The Swimming Events At The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing Was Transformed Into This Dope-Looking Waterpark
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#5 Architect Turns Old WWII Era Cement Factory Into His Home
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#6 Old Clock Tower Transformed Into A Penthouse
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#7 My Friend’s Living Room In Brooklyn, NY. The Apartment Is Built Inside An Old Church
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#8 This Hotel Used To Be A Brewery
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#9 Church Repurposed Into Dominicanen Bookstore In Maastricht, Netherlands Is Now In The Top 10 Most Beautiful Bookstores Worldwide
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#10 Revitalized One Of The Last Remaining Art Nouveau Brewhouses As A Bar, In The Middle Of Fürth Südstadt
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#11 This Starbucks Drive-Thru In An Old Car Wash
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#12 My Apartment Used To Be A YMCA
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#13 Ottawa's Jail Hostel, Each Cell Converted To A Two-Person Hostel Room
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#14 My College Used To Be A Shopping Mall
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#15 This Grocery Store Used To Be A Hockey Stadium
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#16 What Used To Be An Abandoned Church Is Now One Of The Most Powerful Supercomputing Centers In The World
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#17 Old Rusty Ship Turned Into Stunning Building With Trees And Plants
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#18 The Walgreens In My Neighborhood Used To Be A Bank And They Used Its Vault As Their Vitamin Section
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#19 My Hotel Room Used To Be A Chapel
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#20 The Tallest Indoor Climbing Wall Is Inside Of A Repurposed Grain Silo
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#21 This Old Pool Converted Into Apartments
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#22 My Gym Used To Be A Church
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#23 Swimming Pool In Old Church: Netherne, Surrey
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#24 Court Room That’s Now A Cafe. Cells Are The Toilets. St. Albans, England
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#25 Church Repurposed Into A Climbing Gym
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#26 Waterpark "Tropical Islands" In A Former Airship Hangar In Krausnick, Germany
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#27 My Apartment Building Used To Be A School
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#28 My House Used To Be A Police Station And My Bathroom Is An Old Jail Cell, The Original Window Is Still In Place
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#29 This Thrift Store Used To Be A Bowling Alley
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#30 FBI Former NYC Headquarters Is Now A Target But They Kept This Safe
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#31 This Satellite Lab Used To Be A McDonald's
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#32 Some Lucky Bastard Gets To Live In This Church
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#33 The Gym I Go To Used To Be A Bank
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#34 Former Power Station Converted Into An Industrial Cafe And Restaurant With Exposed Brickwork And Abundant Planting In Melbourne, Australia
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#35 Jail Turned Into Events Space In Melbourne, Australia
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#36 Detroit's Michigan Theatre Repurposed As A Parking Garage
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#37 My Hotel In Oxford, England Is A Former Prison
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#38 My House Used To Be A Bank, So We Use The Old Safe/Vault As A Basement
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#39 The Subway I Went To Today Used To Be A Bank. Instead Of Removing The Vault They Just Added More Seating Inside
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#40 This Gym That Used To Be A Bank
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#41 My Apartment Is An Old Police Station And Still Has The Original But Painted Cell Doors
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#42 The Liberty Hotel In Boston Which Was Formerly The Charles St Jail
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#43 Another Church Turned Into A Climbing Gym
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#44 Former Chruch, Now Home To The Dutch Brewer, Jopen
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#45 Church Turned Into A Trampoline Park. The Hague, Netherlands
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#46 My School’s Library Used To Be A Bank
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#47 A Church In St. Louis, Missouri That Became An Indoor Skatepark
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#48 My House Is A 20,000 Sq Ft 1926 Former Freemason Temple That We Have Been Renovating By Ourselves While Living Inside For The Past 2.5 Years
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#49 Supermarket In Venice Used To Be A Theatre
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