The Globe and Mail

Just build it — grandly — and the dollars will flow. Thus seems to be the thinking behind the Edifice Complex taking over Toronto, where excitement and controversy swirl around the architectural redesigns of the city's major cultural institutions. Over on the West Coast, the Vancouver Art Gallery is also planning a major renovation. But the VAG's cautious approach looks more restrained, even, than Frank Gehry's rectilinear awning for the Art Gallery of Ontario. And in light of the recent rumble at the AGO, when superstar philanthropist Joey Tanenbaum protested the superstar architect's "frivolous" transformation, the transparent, widely consultative process favoured in Vancouver might not be a bad way to go.