The slaughterhouses and abattoirs in this roundup, originally built for slaughtering animals, have been transformed into galleries, breweries and cooking schools.
Some of the examples have had considerable alterations to make them suited for their new purpose, while others retain original features ? such as white-tiled walls and metal bars ? in a nod to their industrial past.
From Spain and Denmark to the United Arab Emirates, here are six slaughterhouse conversions from the Dezeen archive:

Plato Contemporary Art Gallery, Czech Republic, by KWK Promes
Architecture studio KWK Promes converted a 19th-century slaughterhouse in the Czech Republic into the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery, adding a concrete extension and rotating walls with impressions of windows. After decades of being in disrepair, the studio's transformation of the heritage-protected building features white exhibition spaces that open up to the surrounding gardens.
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Photo by Edmund Sumner
Anthropocene Museum 9.0, United Arab Emirates, by Cave Bureau
For the latest Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau transformed the still-functioning Old Sharjah Slaughterhouse into the Anthropocene Museum 9.0, guiding visitors along the route taken by animals for slaughter.
Guests entered through the gates, then travelled through the pens and up a ramp leading to the slaughterhouse and processing rooms, passing installations that focused...