With several billions invested in new architecture and growth, Toronto is engaged in a building boom.
The city is on the verge of an architectural rebirth. The list of projects on-the-go includes major expansions at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ontario College of Art and Design, the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, the Royal Conservatory of Music and the National Ballet School of Canada... It will be three, four years or more before the last of these schemes is complete, but the process has started. After more than a decade of devastation, Toronto's cultural institutions have regrouped into a position of civic leadership. By the time the cranes are down, Toronto will have works by some of the world's leading architects, Frank Gehry (AGO), Daniel Libeskind (ROM) and Will Alsop (OCAD) among them.
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