Consider the Williamsburg Bridge, which was built for subways.
Ideal answers to robocalling are elusive because of the telephony infrastructure, which was built for analog calls over copper wire.
Inevitably, the talk also turned to the costly trappings of the office, which was built for Frank Sinatra in 1963.
Bageye's family lives on the Farley Hill council estate, which was built for and is mainly populated by Irish labourers.
It was reorganized in 1984 and moved into the Liberty Street house, which was built for Engine 10 in 1980.
In 2007, a national immigration museum opened in the Porte Dorée, an Art Deco palace in eastern Paris which was built for a colonial exposition in 1931.
In 1926 Herengracht 502, which was built for a director of the Dutch East India Company in 1672, became the mayor's official residence.
On sunny weekends in Beijing, urbanites flock to Olympic Forest Park, which was built for the 2008 Games, to enjoy the picturesque running routes.
And nothing proclaims your city's greatness like a vast Ferris wheel, the first of which was built for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
The team currently plays in Phoenix at the America West Arena, which was built for basketball and offers poor sightlines for hockey at one end of the rink.
(The opera company wants to escape the acoustics of the New York State Theater, which was built for dance and muffles sound).
