20 Creative Building Makeovers. An Old Hangar Turned Into Tropical Islands Water Park

#1 ‘Tropical Islands’ water park, Krausnick, Germany. Formerly the largest zeppelin hangar in the world

#2 An abandoned church converted into one of the largest computer centers in the world

#3 The Liberty Hotel in Boston, formerly Charles Street Jail

#4 The highest indoor climbing wall inside an adapted grain elevator

#5 A hotel inside a former railway station. In fact, a few rooms are inside adapted train cars

#6 A theatre in Buenos Aires converted into a bookstore

#7 Walgreens used to be a bank. Its vault is now the vitamin department

#8 A skate park in an abandoned church

#9 The 2008 Beijing swimming pool facility was turned into a water park

#10 Another church turned into a bookstore. This one is Masstricht, the Netherlands. Dominicanen bookshop is among the top 10 most beautiful bookstores in the world

#11 A college that used to be a shopping center

#12 A hotel that used to be a brewery

#13 A courtroom turned into a café. St. Albans, England

#14 An old rusty vessel in South Korea changed into a stunning structure accompanied with trees and other plants

#15 My Hotel in Oxford used to be a prison

#16 Ice-hockey hall turned into a supermarket

#17 In 1973 Ricardo Bofill, a Spanish architect bought a cement factory dating back to WW1 and converted it into a residential building

#18 The center of Fürth Südstadt. A renovated art nouveau brewery changed into a bar

#19 A residential building that used to be a school

#20 A computer lab inside a former McDonald’s restaurant