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Adam Khan architects were commissioned to create a new building for the work.

Fifteen artists — internationally known figures like Ms. Echelman, whose hand-knotted hangings give crafts a coolly conceptual edge, alongside less-established locals — were commissioned to create one-night-only installations on the Santa Monica Pier and the surrounding sand.

Czech glass artists were commissioned to create glass "meteorites," which were set into the building's concrete core "as if they had crashed to Earth from space," in Crowley and Pavitt's description.

But a lack of funds meant that until 1998, when Mark Wallinger, Bill Woodrow and Rachel Whiteread were commissioned to create works for the space, the plinth lay bare.

When Turnage and the writer Richard Thomas (the latter was previously known for "Jerry Springer: The Opera") were commissioned to create a grand opera for Covent Garden about the rise and fall of the late Playboy playmate, actress, and publicity hound Anna Nicole Smith, many were incredulous.

More recently, they were commissioned to create art for Terminal 4 at Kennedy Airport, and they lined the long corridors leading from the planes to customs with a series of plasma-screen panels illustrating personal dramas involving travel — a couple breaking up in Paris, people losing treasured possessions.

He has been commissioned to create murals in London, New York, Chicago, Toronto and many other cities.

In 1865, the "gardener of Paris", Barillet-Deschamps, was commissioned to create an elegant open space.

The figurative painter Kurt Kauper has been commissioned to create paintings for the lobby and a restaurant.

The Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti was commissioned to create the crypt's immense bronze doors.

John Williams has been commissioned to create the official theme of these Winter Games.