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After a long recession in the 1990s, for much of the past seven 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...
Libeskind's $135 million addition to the ROM, called the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal after its lead donor, is resolutely unlike anything Toronto - or most cities - has seen before. To begin with, it doesn't look much like the original building, which is actually two buildings: a yellow brick structure from 1912 that was overtaken in 1932 by a weighty limestone addition in a Beaux Arts style with trace elements of the Gothic and Baroque. Libeskind's Crystal bursts from the old museum's limestone in pointed shards of anodized aluminum. It touches the ground with the jagged footprint...
...international community do more to bring awareness to the current situation? -Kolden Simmonds, Toronto In this country there has been a large grassroots movement that has tendrils in many different areas of influence. It's not just confined to government. Hopefully, the world will say this is something that we will not let stand and that we want to be stewards of humanity...
...hour after the draft.”If he does not go, the back hopes to find himself in some team’s camp to earn his pro-status that way. If all else fails he may eventually end up back in his home province playing for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. And where does that leave Dawson this Saturday and Sunday? In his room, by himself, glued to the t.v., waiting.“I know some guys throw parties or are around lots of family and that type of thing,” Dawson says...
...seems to me we should not forget universal values,” said Maki, speaking in a packed Gund Auditorium at the GSD. Maki’s projects now include Tower 4 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, the new United Nations building in Toronto, and the Media Lab Extension at MIT, among others. In Tokyo alone, he has built 30 works, including the Spiral, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, and the TV Asahi. “His work is grounded in modernist tradition, but it is always in its time fresh and contemporary...