The thirteen-thousand-square-foot space, a century-old former sawdust factory that has been radically reimagined by the Brooklyn-based architects of Bureau V, will serve simultaneously as concert hall, rehearsal room, record studio, and arts incubator, giving young musicians commissioning support and mentoring opportunities.
"We don't have to tell them, 'You can't come because the other ones are coming and there isn't enough space.' " A century ago or so, in the age of steamships and trains, travel was so complicated and arduous that when people ventured far for a vacation, they tended to stay put for a while.
As tonight's story opens, you learn that Vulcans have been guiding -- and inhibiting -- humans' attempts to reach deep space for a century.
Appleby believes that intimations of capitalism's rise first surfaced in the Netherlands, where an otherwise unremarkable country with few resources of its own managed to catapult itself to wealth and prominence in the space of a century.
In the space of a century, from the 1860s to the 1960s, rural population decreased by more than one-third, though since that time the decline has slowed, and the rural population in the early 21st century numbered roughly 10 million.
Thus Old Wolverton was reduced from about thirty peasant families in the mid 16th century to almost none, within the space of a century.
Within the space of a century, though, the situation has reversed: we are seas of humanity, surrounding ever-dwindling island ecosystems essential for our paradise.
For more than thirty years, Burtynsky's studio has occupied space in a century-old brick building designed for a letterpress.
The Nasa project, designed with British involvement, will be just one of the ambitions discussed by UK space scientists when they meet on Thursday at a conference in London to celebrate Britain's entry to the space age half a century ago.
It was a useful reminder that in the space of half a century South Africa has moved from whites-only election campaigns fought and won on the slogan "put the Kaffir in his place" to discontent at the performance of its third black president, Jacob Zuma.
