Gehry designs first major project in Canada

摘要

With the recent installation of limestone floors and Douglas fir walls, the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is wrapping up a top-to-bottom, four-year redesign by Frank Gehry, who spent much of his childhood just streets away from the Toronto museum. The $217 million project, Gehry's first major commission in Canada, increases the museum's size by nearly 20 percent, from 486,000 to 583,000 square feet. This added space will allow the institution to display twice as many pieces from its collection, which features artwork from 100 A.D. to the present, with an emphasis on Canadian artists. The museum also boasts the world's largest collection of works by the British sculptor Henry Moore.