Commercial galleries had shown a lack of interest in the project, and it was held in a
cheap non-art
space, a London Docklands admin block (usually referred to as a
warehouse).
Chicago's own artists tended to flee to New York as soon as their work was deemed significant, but rent was
cheap, and he was able to eventually buy two large exhibition
spaces as well as an 11,000 - square - foot
warehouse that includes a workshop to help artists fabricate large - scale works and vast amounts of storage
space.
In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage
space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6)
cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and
warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.