The re-use of buildings is not only natural and necessary, it's amazing. This book offers a selection of churches, convents and monasteries converted for new uses. Preserving their old structure and very special rooms, these buildings have become modern and luminous spaces: art centers, galleries, hotels, theaters, lofts, houses, commercial buildings, and more. Converted churches shows 35 highly suggestive projects, as a result of this contrast between the original shell and the modern elements, transformed by renowned or just brilliant architects and designers such as Jean Nouvel, Luis Vicente Flores, Matthew Lloyd Architects or Paredes Pedrosa.

01 HOTELS

 Husa Benedictine Monastery

 Kruisherenhotel Maastricht

 Rocamador

 Malmaison Glasgow

 Santo Domingo Bernardo de Fresneda

02 HOUSING

 A luminous loft

 Loft in Amsterdam

 135 West 4th Street

 Amber Hill

03 CULTURE

 FAD

 Centre for Visual Arts

 Machmit! Museum fer Kinder

 Rimouski

 Carre Sainte Anne

 Escuelas Pias

 Sankt Marien

04 MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDINGS

 McColl Center

 Sant Agusti

 Artist's loft

 Residence + studio

 Saint-Martin de Mejan

 Michaelhouse

 San Agustin

 St. Paul's Bow

05 LEISURE:BAR,RESTAURANTS & CLUBS

 John M. Keating

 Paradiso

 Oran M6r

 Blackfriars

06 COMMERCIAL SPACES & OFFICES

 Selexyz Dominicanen

 Hart & Ziel Hair salon

 Abadia Retuerta