AGO reveals what its major expansion will look like

The Art Gallery of Ontario released renderings this week of a major expansion that will, tied to a donation from the chairman and chief executive officer of Canada Goose.

External renderings of the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery – named after the Canada Goose donor – show a boxy building mounted on the museum’s curved entrance structure. The gallery said one of the cornerstone principles for the project is to take the open space as an opportunity to shape it around the works they are displaying, dividing galleries into more intimate spaces when the art calls for it. These new additions will connect with four locations within pre-existing galleries.

In the words of the late great Anthony Bourdain 'It's not a good-looking city. It's not a good-looking town,' he said of Toronto. 'You've got all the worst architectural fads of the 20th century.' Rip

'The ROM looks ridiculous. Why shouldn't we?'

It’s a giant mask to show how effective the holes are…

oh good lord. It looks like a boat.

I really wished that they could have had the land on the waterfront where George Brown College is now. It would be fantastic to be on the waterfront

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