Western Metal Supply Company: the transition from factory to stadium in San Diego, California
Here’s another building that went through a profound change. As you can imagine, city architects had no way of predicting the future needs of future citizens. Therefore, they couldn’t have come up with plans to build certain places, like malls or football stadiums. Unfortunately, the many years spent at university don’t include a crystal ball.
But that doesn’t mean people can’t change how a building looks to serve a contemporary purpose. Like the previous “then and now,” this factory stopped producing metal to satisfy the modern need to de-stress over a sports game. And they even chose to keep the factory sign to let the supporters know about the stadium’s history.