Word: box
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...years Toronto has enjoyed an enormous building boom. Downtown is stuffed with new corporate headquarters. Around the shore of Lake Ontario the skyline is bristling with condo towers. Nearly all the construction from these years has been fairly conventional, though - this is still a city where the developer's box rules. But in one part of town, the rules have changed. On June 2 the venerable Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will officially open a new addition designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind in his most implacable and declarative style. And with that, the boomtown will be getting a building that...
...sure to have people asking, "What's that about?" To which Libeskind says, "Fine." He designed the thing precisely to evoke that response. "This is not something that you know," he says. "It's a reinvention. It's not just business as usual. It's not just another black box...
Thorsell admits that when they saw what the interface was going to look like, some regular ROM donors thought "that box" was a little too crazy. "They just couldn't understand us doing this," he says. But others, like Michael Lee-Chin, the billionaire chairman of Portland Holdings, who gave $30 million to put his name on the addition, came through precisely because there was something new on the horizon. So far the museum has raised $228 million toward its goal of $240 million, a sum that covers both Libeskind's new building and extensive renovations to the galleries...
...adds. "Not a single one of my clients has ever asked me to make a box. None of them has said to me, 'We want you to design something like somebody else.'" Well, naturally. They would be crazy...
...hypermarket in downtown Libreville, a box of eggs from France costs $11, a small bunch of carrots $10, and a bottle of St. Emilion Château Ausone 1er Grand Cru Classé 1999 goes for $312. But it's a short drive from here to Mindwube I, the smoking mountains of garbage on the capital's eastern edge, where the hypermarkets throw out meat and vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives...