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Starry-eyed design for ROM site

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2005 / September 9

Since William Thorsell became director and CEO of the venerable Royal Ontario Museum in 2000, the former editor-in-chief of this newspaper has been pulling surprising architectural rabbits out of his hat at the rate of almost one a year. The most startling so far is architect Daniel Libeskind's hulking composition of sharp elbows and angles, commissioned in 2002 and scheduled to become the ROM's Bloor Street West entrance next autumn. Mr. Thorsell's surprise for 2005, which the ROM unwrapped for reporters this week, is the final scheme for a 45-storey skyscraper destined to rise from the debris of the decommissioned McLaughlin Planetarium on Queen's Park, south of Bloor Street.

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