She opened an eye-popping modern winery in 2001 designed as much as an art gallery and performance space as a practical winemaking facility.
Originally designed as an art gallery by a Swiss architect, it is a striking mash-up of six interlocked shipping containers, located on the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building, Construction and City Development (EiABC) campus, in the heart of the capital.
They seem designed as much for an office desk or mantel as for a gallery.
Where Frick's office once was, just off the West Gallery, for instance, was absorbed into what became the Oval Room, and the construction of what is now known as the Music Room on the ground floor, with its domed ceiling and circular skylight, was originally designed as a lecture hall and gallery.
Indeed, the show itself is designed as an inversion: The gallery remains dark during the day and is illuminated at night.
Less than three years ago, the Science Museum opened Media Space – a £4.5m gallery designed as a London showcase for the Bradford collections.
Although it was designed as a home for the rapidly expanding collection of American art, the gallery debuted as a showcase of European art while the traditional gallery was renovated.
The exhibition is designed as a dialogue between her work and some of the paintings in the gallery (by Mantegna, Rubens and Seurat) that speak the same language.
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