Website review: thecoolhunter.net - Royal Ontario M...
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•9 reviews since Jun 5, 2007
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- wynandviljoen rated 8 weeks ago
- Great design, very aggressive. Way ahead of its time (which I love). Looks like something out of a star wars movie.
xerostar rated 3 months ago- That looks incredible! Perhaps I'll check it out this summer...
- makavelicoolup rated 10 months ago
- different
- sayroman133 rated 10 months ago
- if you really like architecture....hell....even if you DON'T like architecture....you will love this site!!!
- WhoGivesAShirt rated 10 months ago
- This is the nearly-completed extension to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum. For years, the ROM has been a relatively static collection in a big neo-fortress, and so the announced expansion put the people who like staid and boxy into paroxysms. I, for one, loved it from the first, though I admit to being disappointed that the initial plan of an all glass "explosion" had to be reworked to steel, owing to excessive weight. From these photos, the work is nearing completion. I wonder how long after the opening it'll take for people to come 'round to it, as they did the Louvre's pyramids, the Guggenheim in New York and virtually every other controversial architectural structure in the art world? (Note: Everyone seems to love the Gehry AGO building too, but if I could firebomb a building in Toronto, it'd be that. A modern piece for the staid and boxy set, if ever I saw one.)
- Moody834 rated 11 months ago
- "What started out as a sketch on a napkin at a family wedding, soon became a submission for Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum extension. This extension may well signal the prelude to the city's cultural renaissance, and be the first deviation from the boxy buildings of the existing landscape. It's about time someone got away from the boxes, plus this building is not too shabby either. "World-famous architect Daniel Libeskind, who also won the 2002 contest to replace New York's World Trade Center, faxed the napkins in. Since then, the 56,000 square-foot addition has brewed several controversies amongst Torontonians and architecture buffs - as does any visionary work, or so they say. While some praise its bold design marked by angular complexity, others believe it's an insult to a heritage monument. Yet others just think it resembles an alien ship from space. At least it has people talking."
