ROM asks city to waive fee for Crystal overhang

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ROM asks city to waive fee for Crystal overhang

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2007 / January 5

The Royal Ontario Museum has asked the city to waive its $2,400 annual rent on the piece of the sky above Bloor Street sliced by architect Daniel Libeskind's famed Crystal. The ROM has paid the fee three times, beginning in 2004, for the Crystal's encroachment over the Bloor sidewalk. The centrepiece of the Renaissance ROM renewal project, the Crystal extends about four metres, 24 metres up, according to a city report. The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal will open in June. Mr. Libeskind, known for designing the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Freedom Tower for the former site of the World Trade Center in New York, was chosen to design a landmark building for the ROM in 2002.

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