Toronto Star

Frank Gehry has returned to Toronto, and to architecture. With the unveiling yesterday of his $195 million Art Gallery of Ontario addition, the world's most famous architect has put aside the flamboyance so characteristic of his work since the 1990s. He has gone back to the kinds of things with which his less celebrated colleagues must traditionally deal — how people move through the building, getting light into the interior and figuring out how the structure relates to its surroundings. These were not considerations that played a large role in, for example, his most famous creation, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. That building, opened in 1997, is not only the most talked about architectural work of the late 20th century, it is the work that catapulted Gehry to superstar status.