Toronto Star

Last night Chicago threw a spectacular party to celebrate the opening of Millennium Park, an extravagant and stunning waterfront development that features two flamboyant new creations by celebrated architect Frank Gehry. At the Chicago gala, Gehry was the man of the hour, and his shiny steel Jay Pritzker Pavilion — an audacious venue for large-scale outdoor concerts — is being hailed as one of his greatest creations, comparable to his Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. And in a few years, another Great Lakes city hopes to celebrate its first Frank Gehry building. That city, of course, is Toronto. But Gehry, who was born here but left at the age of 18 for Los Angeles, recently he made it clear that Toronto has no right to consider itself architecturally on the same plane as Chicago.