Toronto Star

Though memorials commemorate the past, they must also address the future. Few take that responsibility more seriously than the Jewish War Veterans Memorial. Designed by celebrated architect Daniel Libeskind, he of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition at the Royal Ontario Museum, this is a work that looks ahead to a world that doesn't yet exist. When finished a year from now, the piece will tell a story that has never been told. Located on a .8-hectare site in the northwest corner of Earl Bales Park near Bathurst and Sheppard, Libeskind's monument will be a thoroughly 21st-century hybrid; not only consecrated ground but also part sculpture and part architecture, a destination as well as an event space. "It will be a place of celebration and a place of meditation," explains Libeskind, who first came to international prominence in 2000 with the remarkable and deeply moving Jewish Museum in Berlin.