The second life of buildings

The Botanical Garden at the railway station

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Atocha is the first train station in Madrid, opened in February 1851. Many remember the Atocha station since the horrible terrorist attack in 2004 year. But now, only the monument reminds about it, and amazes newcomers with the beauty of the tropical nature, raging raging inside the building. Architect Rafael Moneo created an amazing botanical garden right at the station. Now it is the largest railway station, the center of communications, with a huge shopping center, many cafes and a botanical garden. Garden area — 4000 square meters. Among the plants, a pond is hidden, where there live 22 species of fish and turtles.

Parking in the theater

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This is the only parking in the world in the style of the Italian Renaissance. It's about Michigan Theater in Detroit. In the 1970s, the townspeople were allowed to park in the former auditorium. The irony is that the theater was built on the site of Henry Ford's first workshop. Opened in 1926 the cinema was the largest in state. The building, which served as a traditional theater, a cinema and a concert hall, accommodated 4,000 spectators, but gradually it became unprofitable. Now, under the painted gilded walls, cars are parked, behind the naves observed by the cherubs adorning what was once the scene. On the background of the peeling plaster until now, there are torn remnants of red velvet curtains.

Water park in the aviation hangar

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In Germany, not far from the village of Ritsnaendorf-Stack, there is a whole entertainment complex called the Tropical Islands Resort. This is a huge indoor water park, created in the "air hanger", built before the "World War II". Previously, it contained giant airships in it, and people are now resting there, splashing around in the pools and leaving the water slides.

A climbing wall at a sugar factory

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The silo tower of the idle sugar factory at Montreal Smith Vigeant Architects bureau was converted into a climbing complex. Having decided to keep the historical imprint of the building in the interior, the climbing walls were decorated with white cliffs symbolizing the sugar reserves that once filled the silo. The walls have a different level of complexity, which allows you to choose the best option for yourself, in accordance with the technical and physical training.

Farm at old factory

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In China, despite the rapid industrial growth, there are also abandoned factories. And one of them in the vicinity of Shenzhen, recently turned into a farm for growing fresh vegetables and fruits. People try to use with any advantage of any piece of land, even abandoned factories. The creators of Value Farm plan to transfer the experience of this unusual farm to the size of the whole of China, which should positively affect the growth of the product safety of the most populated country in the world.

Winery from old boats

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The new winery on the Pacific coast in California was built not only from bricks, but from old fishing boats that used to float in the coastal waters. The project of this unusual complex was developed by Mexican architects Claudia Turrent and Alejandro d & acosta. It means the creation of a complex of buildings of a small winery, in which the materials used for it are trash emitted by the ocean on the coast of the California Peninsula in Mexico at the place where it was built. This plant, according to the idea of ​​the authors of the project, should conceptually combine in itself "winemaking" and "fishing" — two traditional occupations of the inhabitants of Baja California, for which the economy of this state has been kept for centuries.

Exhibition centers, apartments and offices in former factories and manufactories

Design-Factory Bottle

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Recently, it has become fashionable in Moscow to use abandoned premises for creative areas and communities for artists, designers and generally creative personalities. For example, the design plant of the bottle at the site of the former Crystal Factory, or Winzavod — at the place of the brewery, offices in the former building of the Krasny Oktyabr factory. It's clear — high-quality brickwork makes the room cozy, and on ~ nbsp; vast areas you can organize a dream office.

Street art exhibition in house for demolition

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The Paris gallery invited 105 artists to 'decorate' & raquo; abandoned apartments and stairwells of a nine-story building, where previously low-income citizens were housed. The largest scale exhibition of street art, which occupied 4.5 thousand square meters, could be visited until the end of October, 2013. After that, the house, as planned, was demolished.

Swimming pool on an abandoned metro station

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The new candidate for the mayor of Paris, Nathalie Koziuscot-Morizet, pondered the use of abandoned areas and decided that the empty metro stations could be used in a more rational way. So now in her pre-election program there are very original projects on changing abandoned stations: it turns out that you can place a pool, & nightclub, & even a theater. By the way, she developed these projects herself with two architects.

House and Museum on the Old Bridge

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In San Francisco, a few years wondering what to do with the old Bay Bridge Bridge, built in 1936 the year when the new bridge was built. There were projects to turn this object into a residential district, but they remained only on paper. In result, we decided to sell the bridge to scrap metal China, and already half disassembled it. But the local millionaire bought the rest to build on her Bay Bridge House — An unusual dwelling house, combined with a museum. The exterior walls in this building will be made of glass, so that from any point of the house you can admire the gorgeous panoramas of San Francisco and located on the other side of the bay of Oakland. The millionaire himself is not going to live in this house.