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Here We AGO AgainThe Art Gallery of Ontario to get a Gehry building and a promise of new life.
By Sacha Botbol
Online Exclusive.
In late January, The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) unveiled plans for a Frank Gehry-designed building that will expand the total space of the museum by 20 percent or 190,000 square feet over its present 486,000. Gehry's $194.8 million scheme is part of Transformation AGO, a $500 million initiative to invigorate the institution with new art, a new building, and a new push for greater public visibility. Groundbreaking is scheduled for early 2005 with completion by 2007.
Having grown up within walking distance of the gallery, Gehry says that he wanted to create "something which reflects Toronto and embraces the neighborhood." Sweeping across the new building, a massiv
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