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