Named after Eli and Edye Broad, the billionaire philanthropists who financed it, the museum is the boldest attempt in a decade to transform a notoriously desolate, sterile city centre into a world-class arts hub.
Citywide initiatives include the C$8 million, Unesco-approved Promenade Smith project, which will transform a previously desolate area of Griffintown into a public park.
Between the beach and the working port (transformed from a desolate wasteland of cracked pavements and potholed roads) there is now a horseshoe-shaped marina where all of the America's Cup teams are based - much like an oversized Formula One pit lane by the sea.
So much for doom and gloom: On Tuesday and Wednesday, blue skies, a light offshore wind and a steady pulse of swells transformed the desolate beach into a surfing paradise.
"And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him, and that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace".
(Yeah) And if one will hold on, he will discover that God walks with him (Yeah, Well), and that God is able (Yeah, Yes) to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.
Still, its very presence had transformed the desolate beach from a place of despair into one of promise.
A machine puffed fog, transforming the stage into a desolate bombed-out scene, where alienation, mob mentality and grief were present both in the throbbing industrial score and Mr. Shechter's chaotic groupings.
He achieved this by transforming the desolate scenes he had witnessed as a child into the fantastic and lovely images that fill his books.
Years of shared experience, he says, have transformed this apparently desolate wasteland into a small island of enchantment in an ocean of suburban dreariness.
