Gas station gets new life on Nuns’ Island
Tracey Lindeman writes about the Nuns’ Island Mies van der Rohe gas station and its transformation to a community centre, for CityLab.
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qatzelok 12:19 on 2019-03-17 Permalink
That Nun’s Island’s most significant architectural icon is a gas station is of symbolic importance in understanding why Nun’s Island itself is a prize-winning but failed experiment in high-end suburban forms.