And of course, the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art in NYC was once  
Barney's department store, designed by Andree Putnam!
On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Paul Koenig wrote:

> Monterey Bay Aquarium adapted some industrial buildings.
> Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, CA was once Venice  
> City Hall (thus beating politics into poetics).
> The Marylou and George Boone Gallery at the Huntington Library,...  
> was a garage building.
> The old May Co. building at LACMA.
> The Gallery of Modern Art at the Tate Museum in London was once a  
> power station.
>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Heather Cochran wrote:
>
>> I would love to hear from anyone who knows of a successful or  
>> striking museum or cultural space in a building that once housed  
>> something completely unrelated.
>>
>> For example, the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach  
>> was created by the retrofit of a roller-rink. The MOCA's Geffen  
>> Contemporary in Los Angeles is housed in a building which used to  
>> be a hardware store and later, a police car garage.
>>
>> Surely, there are many others. Which do you think are the best  
>> building "re-imagingings"  out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Heather Cochran
>> Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
>
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