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| The Casa Futebol project envisaged turning Brazil’s World Cup 2014 stadiums including the Estádio Nacional de Brasília into affordable housing. Photo: Tomas Faquini/1week1project |
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| In St Louis, the interior and exterior of a former shoe factory was turned into a massive playground. Photo: Mike DeFilippo/ City Museum |
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| The disused Osaka stadium was bought by a development company and turned into a model home show before being demolished in 1998. Photo: Naoya Hatakeyama |
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| Atelier Zündel Cristea imagined a future Battersea Power Station that’s both a museum of architecture and a giant rollercoaster. Photo: Atelier Zündel Cristea |
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| They may not be buildings but these red telephone boxes in London (and others in Birmingham) were transformed into micro cafes. Photo: Graham Franks/Alamy Stock Photo |
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| Oxo Architectes proposed transforming the Paris ‘ghost’ metro station of Arsenal into a public swimming pool. Photo: Oxo Architectes |
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| Turning gasometers into homes: The Gasometer Building in Vienna, Austria. Photo: Gareth Byrne / Alamy/Alamy |
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| Paris’ La Flèche d’Or turned a former train station on a now abandoned railway into a music venue. Photo: Alamy |
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| A group of skaters and a street artist converted an abandoned church near Oviedo, Spain, into a mural-covered skatepark. Photo: David Ramos/Getty Images |
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| But turning a sports stadium into housing has already been done of course with Arsenal FC’s former ground in Highbury, north London. Photo: View Pictures/Rex |
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| Arons en Gelauff proposed turning three abandoned sewage tanks in Amsterdam the ‘Silos Zeeburg’ into a cultural centre including a playground, cinema, and theatre. Photo: Arons en Gelauff Architects |
Source: The weirdest reinventions of city buildings – in pictures
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