The Toronto Star's architecture critic looks ahead at 2005 and likes what he sees.
In this piece, Christopher Hume opines that while Toronto may still remain "a bastion of architectural mediocrity", the completion of a number of significant projects will make 2005 a key year in Toronto's cultural renaissance. These include the first phase of Daniel Libeskind's makeover of the Royal Ontario Museum, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg's expansion of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Sir Norman Foster's pharmaceutical building at the University of Toronto, and Behnisch and Behnisch's cellular and biomolecular research centre on College Street. As a result of the projects, and others that are in the pipeline for 2006, "the next few years should be the most exciting in decades" for architecture in Toronto.
Thanks to Geoffrey Singer
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