It had never lost its railway-station look (the Barrault theatre was an independent wooden contraption that sat inside the old station, much as the glass and metal structure of the Royal Exchange in Manchester sits in its building); it seemed rather to glory in its history, and was copied 10 years later by the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
"Given that people spend so much time here, having a dining experience comparable to the facility itself, whether formal or more casual, was important to us," said James Gara, the chief operating officer of the Museum of Modern Art, which has offered three eating establishments in its building since 2004, when it completed its renovation.
Over half of HUD's research funds during this time were spent on Operation Breakthrough, and it was modestly successful in its building goals.
In its small-screen Afro-surrealism, it ranks as an heir to Donald Glover's "Atlanta"; in its building of provocative art from confrontational politics, it is a fine companion to Boots Riley's film "Sorry to Bother You," which likewise expresses nauseatingly grim social analysis in giddily imaginative form.
The company, which also has a store on Fifth Avenue in New York City and four other suburban stores, will build an additional 80,000 square feet in its building for other tenants, possibly including a restaurant.
In February, the Charas/El Bohio Cultural and Community Center convinced a Manhattan Civil Court jury that it should be allowed to stay in its building on East Ninth Street in the East Village.
Nearly seven years after opening a $477 million complex on a prime parcel of Pennsylvania Avenue, the Newseum floated a document saying it would consider offering an ownership stake in its building in exchange for an immediate influx of funds.
In those years, it had 6,500 members, and 26 employees worked in its building on Queens Boulevard.
In the health-care industry, Kaiser Permanente announced in 2016 that it is banning Forever Chemicals in furniture and materials in its building projects.
Unlike the other solos, it was a consistently happy and playful dance, almost childlike in its building of imaginary imagery.
On the one hand, it's a kind of wild-souled existential drama, Bergmanesque in its building of confrontations on the excavated sediment of painful backstory; Cassavetes-like (think of one of the "Husbands") in its suburban ethnic flailing.
