Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Maastricht IV

A dominican Church converted into a bookshop! Fascinating! They appeared to have renovated the church beautifully and then they placed (bolted in on the floor) a structure in black steel on one side of the church, not damaging any of the original structure.

I can only imagine the contreversy it must have had using a church for anything commercial but the way it has been renovated,in such an amazing way, the way the books are presented made me feel like it was done with much respect and I prefer this than having a church get into ruin because the clergy can no longer afford to keep it up. It is a way to preserve cultural heritage.

Une église dominicaine reconvertie en une librairie! Fascinant!




The Ceiling / Le plafond:




The coffee shop:


It has won an architectural interiors prize.

2 comments:

Mimi said...

pas mal ....pour moi ce serait un rêbe d'habiter dans une église!!!!

Anonymous said...

nice pics and commentary sas! can't wait for your kruisherehotel coverage. Actually its them who got the designprice.
How are U doin?. I am just flat out fro the garden work.
Want to have 2 pink rosebushes from me? I am cutting out all the pink. Not that I don0t like the colour its just doe not fit in our colour scheme. Brrrr....what a blah..........
well anyway ....... dolly