In 1974, the Family Service Association, in need of space more suited to its needs, left Lincoln House after half a century for new quarters on Murray Street.

Excrement lined one wall, and a half-dozen elves huddled in the rest of the space better suited for two or three.

The mixed-use project, in which distribution and high-tech companies will be emphasized, will have the sort of space particularly suited to companies seeking free-trade-zone benefits.

Several weeks later, Mr. Buckley was still tinkering with the acoustics, the most challenging technical aspect of creating a space suited to different disciplines.

This meant that the chances of an organism from outer space being suited to harm man were very slim.

Singers will move from one stage to the other as scenes change, an unusual setup that Mr. Echols said was made necessary by the absence of an affordable performing space suited to Baroque opera.

Founded as a marketplace that local growers could rent cooperatively to sell their products in a space more suited to their needs than Boston's historic Haymarket open-air marketplace, it has been the focal point of the floral trade of New England for over a hundred years.

The installation was delayed as there was no space ideally suited to a Myki machine, as the Metcard machines were located in the optimal locations at the station.

Amaturo Theater, an intimate space ideally suited for dramatic productions as well as children's theater, film, community theater, choirs, chamber, jazz, folk and symphonic music groups, seminars, and emerging dance companies.

Polly Apfelbaum, apparently left to her own devices, shows five pieces, made of crushed white velvet stained with beautiful colors, in a space better suited for two, which effectively stifles their unusual radiance.