The once brick-walled passageway — still open to cyclists and pedestrians — now has large windows, allowing passers-by a peek inside the museum.
The hospital buildings on the south side of the island were fenced off long ago to protect tourists from falling bricks, collapsing timbers and passageways that were knee-deep in dangerous debris.
To the beat of electronica and pulsing lights, they gyrated lustily on a dance floor in a circular brick chamber ringed by a subterranean labyrinth of narrow passageways.
So we followed Mr. Kurowycky, who on a balmy December day wore shorts and flip-flops, through a narrow passageway to a tiled preparation area with a brick floor.
From the outside, it looked like a normal, if dilapidated, red brick town house, but, inside, the studios were off a passageway that was so labyrinthine and long that there was no imagining where it might lead.
Last month, Garcetti was at the grand opening of EaCa Alley (named for East Cahuenga) in Hollywood, where a filthy passageway was morphed into a more approachable space with red brick, tables and chairs.
A spate of big and little differences -- from the street outside (visible through the passageway) to the angles of walls, the patterns of bricks and the courtyard's inhabitants -- attest to ways that reality was constantly rearranged to suit the artist, or a client.
Remington, which has its headquarters in North Carolina, employs more than a thousand people at its Ilion plant, a complex of four-story brick buildings, some still with creaky wood floors, that are connected by passageways.
