Despite its large footprint, the current building does not provide an excess of space for exhibitions.
It's a conference center for economic, environmental and urban planning in the region, with space for exhibitions.
The Bloomberg administration promotes the building as a large-scale column-free space for exhibitions, performances and events like Fashion Week.
Its Life Science Centre is a bold and colourful space for exhibitions, activities and scientific displays for burgeoning boffins.
While stunning architecturally, it provides far too little space for exhibitions, storage and offices, preferring instead grandiose atriums, stairwells and lobbies.
At SALT's opening, as we stood in the gorgeous library full of art journals and magazines and books, a European friend wondered why they'd built a library in a space for exhibitions.
That site will adjoin another called the "culture shed," a 170,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor space for exhibitions, film festivals and fashion shows, which will also have an outdoor cafe.
The bathhouses, two historic landmark buildings dating from the 1920's, have 30,000 square feet of potential space for exhibitions, public programs, a theater, classrooms and offices, Ms. Zola said.
The temporary museum, a 140,000-square-foot, two-story building formerly owned by Swingline, the maker of staplers and other office supplies, will house much of the museum's permanent collection and provide space for exhibitions, storage and offices.
