ROM Renaissance

ROM Renaissance, originally uploaded by nfotxn.

Some pics of the ROM retro-fit as I took some of my gays on a death march through the city. It was seriously a death march, even I have the blisters on my feet to prove it.

I'm especially interested in this building because as a kid birthdays, holidays and family outings with my family usually revolved around places like the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Zoo etc.

I really dig how the building engages the street. It also takes a museum out of the context of Victorian ideas of progress past and places science and discovery back in the present. I think it's leading the way to present modern buildings and spaces to drive that feeling home, despite a dominating feeling of conservatism in the culture at large.

You can read more about the building at the Architect's web site.