What does renovation mean to you? Maybe changing lightbulbs. Getting new furniture. Or even painting your house with fresh paint colors. But for some people, renovation is a way of taking out their inner artist.
With sheer dedication and intelligence, these people have converted a building into something it was never meant to be. Like a hotel into a hospital, a jail into a hotel, and a stone observatory into a home.
Scroll down to see more. And don’t forget to tell us your favorite remakes and repurposed buildings from this list.
Moved Here 4 Years Ago. Converted Victorian Church In England. Love This Room
The Building Used For The Swimming Events At The 2008 Summer Olympics In Beijing Was Transformed Into This Dope-Looking Waterpark 
Stone Observatory Tower Converted To A Home 
In Germany, There Is Waterpark Called Tropical Islands. It’s A Literal Tropical Island Built Inside An Old Blimp Hangar 
Gas Station Greenhouse 
My Gym Used To Be Part Of An Asylum Complex. The Pool Used To Be A Church And The Confession Booths Are Now A Sauna 
Vienna Gasometers: Gas Storage Tanks First Built-In 1896 And Converted Into Mixed-Use Developments Between 1995 And 2001 
Niccolò Paganini Auditorium, Parma, Italy, An Abandoned Sugar Factory Converted Into A Concert Hall By Renzo Piano In 1996 
This Abandoned Church Was Purchased By Skaters And Renovated Into A Dream Park 
My New Apartment Still Has The Original Molding From When It Was A Hotel Ballroom In 1923 
Dublin: An 11th Century Viking Well And Stone Under A Local Shop
My House Turned 101 Today (Originally A 1920’s Corner Grocery) 
These Two UK Phone Booths Have Been Repurposed 
The Hospital I Work For Was Originally Designed To Be A Hotel 
Stamba Hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia, Designed In 2018 By Adjara Group And Located In An Old Printing House 
My Town’s Library Is Under Construction, So They’re Using An Old Grocery Store As The Temporary Library 
This Defunct Subway Entrance Is A Working Subway Entrance 
The Grand Concourse Built In 1898. Once Train Station Is Now A Restaurant In Pittsburgh, PA 
A Former Grain Silo In Oslo, Now Converted To Student Housing 
This McDonald’s In New Zealand Has A Decommissioned Plane You Can Dine In 
This Hotel Is An Old Prison 
A Ship’s Bridge That Has Been Removed And Converted Into A House 
Old Bank Was Transformed Into A Hotel, They Kept The Vault As A Meeting Room 
Regional Coffee Chain Buys Gas Station, Uses Car Wash As Drive Through 
In The UK, Redundant Telephone Boxes Are Being Repurposed As Public Defibrillators 
Old Church Turned Into A 24/7 Pancake Restaurant 
My Girlfriend’s Office Used To Be A Bowling Alley. The Original Lanes Are Still There 
The Old Don Jail (1864) In Toronto Converted Into Offices For The Newly Built Hospital Beside It In 2013 
This Hotel Is Built Out Of Train Cars 
Old Silo In Söderköping, Sweden, Repurposed As Housing 
These Apartments Used To Be A YMCA 
McDonald’s In The Art Deco Former “United Kingdom Hotel”, Clifton Hill, Melbourne, Australia 
Old Church Converted Into A Gym 
A Smartphone Repair Office Inside A Telephone Box North Of Holborn Station 
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre: A Former Commodities Exchange With A 750-Seat Theatre ‘Pod’ Tucked Inside. The Theatre Opened In 1976 
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