Storytellers Clubb has been transported to festivals, including this year's Latitude, in a new purpose-built space called the Shed of Stories.
The first MIT theater production to be designed, rehearsed, built, and staged in W97's purpose-built space enabled MIT students to be far more immersed in creating and making.
There were also proposals to use the Gemini spacecraft to conduct long-duration missions to small, purpose-built space stations in low-Earth orbit.
Dockless bikes, however, are far less orderly compared with sharing programmes that require the cycle to be returned to a purpose-built parking space.
The garden bridge was something entirely different: a purpose-built, private space underwritten by the taxpayer linking some of the capital's most valuable real estate on either side of the river.
"Audium" occupies one of the world's very few purpose-built spaces for sound art, and "The Wave Organ" makes use of the Bay Area's resplendent natural topography in an unparalleled way.
Dedicated competitive gaming spaces, oddities just a few years ago, are now springing up all over, moving esports away from traditional sporting venues and into increasingly high-profile purpose-built spaces.
Otium is in a purpose-built two-story space that sits atop a bridge above Hope Street and has the windows to showcase the view.
It was the first liftoff from China's newly constructed Wenchang launch complex, a purpose-built facility set to become the focus for Chinese space ambitions.
The building's centerpiece, a purpose-built performance lab, will provide a uniquely flexible, large-scale space for experimenting with various formats, including the ability to stage unconventional music events and employ flexible seating.
