In the days after Sept. 11, they were overjoyed to read that St. Charlie's, the restaurant they had struggled and saved to buy, had been transformed into the Ground Zero Bar, where firefighters and rescue workers found comfort amid the ashes.
To reach the show you have to cross the river Foyle that divides the Protestant east from the Catholic west via the bridge so recently built in the name of peace and then strike out across the square where the British army once paraded, now transformed into common ground.
In my pursuit of rational science, those lakeshore sands, originally solely of geological interest, have been transformed into sacred grounds.
The corridor leading to the House chamber had been transformed into staging grounds for the caterers, with huge serving tins of beets and green vegetables.
Roofs have transformed into camp grounds.
There, the Translucent cast pieces of the tank are transformed into breeding grounds for coral polyps, which will continue to grow in seven aquariums, slowly spreading and articulating their progress in bright colors and patterns.
For better or for worse — depending on whom you talk to — Beijing's state-run Central Academy of Fine Arts has been transformed into a breeding ground for hot young artists and designers who are quickly snapped up by dealers in Beijing and Shanghai.
I shook my head in disbelief that a peaceful protest was transformed into a hunting ground for police doing their job.
As summers become longer, warmer and drier in the US west, forests are being transformed into perfect staging grounds for repeated wildfires of increasing ferocity.
Less than two years into the job, she has transformed Washington into ground zero of America's education reform movement.
The grand Espace Riviera is more accustomed to red-carpet arrivals by movie stars and hangers-on for the Cannes Film Festival; on Thursday it was transformed instead into ground zero for blue-suited bureaucrats grappling with a financial crisis and the global contagion that it threatened.
