But though this approach was successful as far as it went, it took ever more gallery space.
It will include condominiums as well as 40, 000 square feet of gallery space for the museum, a MoMA spokeswoman said.
With 18, 000 square feet of gallery space, two large installations on the museum's first floor illustrate its international ambition, according to Mr. Rush.
Also do not miss Skaftfell, an artsy bistro with an upstairs gallery space where you can snack and meet the locals to a suitably cool soundtrack.
MoMA officials, who are looking to hire an architect for the addition on the folk-art site, have said they expected the new structure to contain 10, 000 square feet of gallery space.
The smaller museum now presents exhibitions and public programs at Lincoln Square, a gallery space near Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and collaborates with other institutions, including the South Street Seaport Museum.
There appears to be a larger proportion of ancillary space (offices, amenities) to gallery space than one usually finds, and in places the scale of the individual galleries overwhelms the more modestly scaled art on view.
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Towards the more eccentric end of the spectrum, there is PhilaMOCA, once a showroom for mausoleums and tombstones, now an art gallery, performance space and concert venue.
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He also has properties in London that he is waiting to develop and a 300-room Georgian Gothic mansion, Toddington Manor, in Gloucestershire, which he wants to turn into a gallery and showing space.
After fourteen years of planning and construction, at a cost of a hundred and thirty-five million dollars, the gallery occupies one connected space in three buildings.
Paul Jones, Elms Lesters' owner, eventually offered him space in his gallery.
Ultimately, he decided to take his existing business in a new direction and opened a retail store, event space and art gallery all focused on baseball.
The inaugural special exhibition of Museum of the Moving Image, Real Virtuality, presents five experiments in art and technology that either draw visitors into immersive computer-generated environments or project digital environments into the physical space of the gallery.
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On the far other side of the loft, the space turns into an art gallery.
The gallery basement is a black-box space filled with movable walls, where the architecture is meant to be invisible.
The five-storey building, which includes a domed roof, was built in 1988 and housed a craft workshop, exhibition space and a public viewing gallery.
The tour starts at Peckham Space, a community-run gallery that aims to engage local young people with artists.
Computer-generated "bots" seem to occupy the real space of the Museum's gallery, while images of Museum visitors are captured and projected into the work's imaginary world.
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Quickly developing into a luxury hub, Rockbund is home to an art gallery, a five-star hotel, office space and luxury apartments.
From a gallery in The Post Family, a collaborative art space, Moving Designers heard from internationally renowned architect Gordon Gill and artist Matthew Hoffman (creator of the You are Beautiful project) to energy efficiency expert Tim Heppner and Ryan Wilson, the stormwater program manager at the Center for Neighborhood Technology.
This gallery is housed in a converted power station, a space that is as stunning and modern as its collection of art works.
The workshop space where it stands will be turned into a gallery which will allow visitors to walk all around the machine and look at "exciting interactive displays" telling the Colossus story.
The new gallery for changing exhibitions on the third floor provides the Museum with its first completely flexible space for presenting cutting-edge new projects, with 4, 100 square feet of unencumbered space.
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"The neighborhood has the infrastructure for artist studios and it's one of the areas that artists are aware has reasonable studio space, " said Eli Ping, one of the founders of Regina Rex gallery, which opened in 2010.
Small gallery spaces and exhibitions are open to the public year round and the Qatar Museums Authority runs a large space where it has recently shown international photographic exhibits.
We see this in a tomb excavated in 2009 and reassembled in the gallery where, ingeniously, director Willow Weilan Hai Chang repositioned the south wall to allow visitors inside the space.
To take only the two most obvious examples, Sir Nicholas Serota, a former young Turk, presides at the new Tate, Britain's most popular gallery, and Charles Saatchi's once shocking collection of Brit art is on display in museum-space that he colonised in London's staid old County Hall upriver.
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