The Globe and Mail

The board of trustees of the Art Gallery of Ontario is meeting this week in Toronto with architects from Frank Gehry's office in Los Angeles to get their first detailed look at the superstar designer's $200-million plans for renovating and expanding the gallery. Gehry himself isn't attending the meetings, or "workshops," as AGO director Matthew Teitelbaum calls them, the first of which was held Monday, the next today. The Toronto-born architect, 74, is ill in Los Angeles, but the project designer from his office, former Vancouverite Craig Webb, is in the Ontario capital while Gehry himself is expected to contribute to today's session via video conference call.