Art Gallery of Ontario plans $60-million expansion, including six-floor tower

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Looking up: Art Gallery of Ontario plans $60-million expansion including six-floor tower

The Art Gallery of Ontario, one of Canada’s largest art museums, is planning a 55,000-square-foot expansionDubbed “AGO Global Contemporary,” the proposed expansion would include a

The AGO is considering a tower with six floors of new gallery space. These are meant to serve the AGO’s “growing collection of global modern & contemporary art and exhibitions,” Andrea-Jo Wilson, the gallery’s manager of public relations, said in an e-mail. She said the project is “in its infancy.” “Toronto is by far the largest art market in Canada; you could think of the AGO holding a position in Canada the way that [the Museum of Modern Art] does in the United States.”

It’s not clear whether the new AGO Contemporary would be as visually prominent. Ms. Wilson said the proposed site is above the gallery’s loading dock and parking lot. This would place the new tower next to the Frank Gehry-designed tower – and right next to the adjacent OCAD University building, which is planning its own vertical expansion designed by Los Angeles architects Morphosis.

 

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Will the tower be filled with art, or is this just another real estate development? Please say art, 🙏 please say art,🙏 please say art. 🙏

Housing a better option?

Oh please higher the guy who stuck an ugly triangle on the side of the ROM. It's just gonna be more glass crap.

It would help to be actually opened

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