/r/repurposedbuildings

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A sub about repurposed buildings.

In architecture, the technical term is 'adaptive reuse'. Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed for.

A sub about repurposed buildings.

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Hamburg's WW2 bunker was reconstructed with a hotel and a roof garden on its top

6 Comments
2024/09/19
02:46 UTC

217

Pizza Hut turned dispensary. Bud Hut Walsenburg Co.

3 Comments
2024/09/15
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Former Hollywood Video with a reused "Game Crazy" sign in Nashville, TN

2 Comments
2024/08/31
13:23 UTC

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Old Hollywood Video in Illinois

2 Comments
2024/08/29
16:38 UTC

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KFC Bucket turned into giant Tim Hortons cup

1 Comment
2024/08/29
16:35 UTC

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Old Elementary School Converted Into Apartment Building (Scotia, New York)

A postcard of Mohawk School dated 1919

Mohawk Elementary School was built in 1917 to replace another school of the same name. The school was located in Scotia, New York and was a part of the Scotia-Glenville Central School District before closing due to declining enrollment in 1981. The original 1917 portion of the building has since been repurposed as an apartment building, while the 1954 expansion is now home to a YMCA daycare. While I feel that closing this particular school was a mistake (which is a long story in of itself), and I am concerned about the condition of the building, I'm nevertheless glad that it is still around.

The former Mohawk School in January 2020

2 Comments
2024/08/15
00:08 UTC

138

Book store inside an abandoned theater

4 Comments
2024/07/03
16:39 UTC

107

This old grain silo in Oslo Norway is now student housing

4 Comments
2024/05/25
17:05 UTC

197

Waterpark Tropical Islands in a former airship hangar Krausnick Germany

15 Comments
2024/04/30
00:11 UTC

173

Law firm in former Taco Bell in Chicago

11 Comments
2024/04/16
01:51 UTC

64

Used to be a drug store. Now it's a dollar store

17 Comments
2024/04/15
21:00 UTC

42

Possibly the worst/best old WAL-MART building conversion ever!

4 Comments
2024/04/13
01:12 UTC

298

This Walgreens in Chicago that used to be a bank

7 Comments
2024/04/12
15:27 UTC

153

Opera theater turned bookstore

3 Comments
2024/04/11
18:07 UTC

412

A library in a former Walmart; McAllen, TX

8 Comments
2024/04/05
02:13 UTC

250

former Pizza Hut turned into Taco Bell.....New Britain, Connecticut

22 Comments
2024/04/03
12:58 UTC

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Grocery store that is now a library

25 Comments
2024/04/01
22:40 UTC

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Video on Christian-Muslim mixed building use, churches changed into mosques, back to churches, and sometimes museums

0 Comments
2024/03/16
01:11 UTC

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