June 6, 2007
The Daily Photoist: ROM Roundup
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Like much of Toronto, we've been a little ROMsessed this week with the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, and now that the public has been allowed in for a peek while it's empty (until June 10), some fantastic photos continue to be added to the Torontoist Flickr pool. With all the hype around our jagged new conversation piece, what tickles us most is how Torontonians are talking about and celebrating architecture a lot more these days—and that people are rediscovering the ROM. Some of those children gazing up into Libeskind's deconstuctionist crystal will undoubtedly be inspired to build more of Toronto's great structures in the decades to come.
PREVIOUSLY IN ROM-SPOTTING:
Inside The ROM Crystal: A First Look
A Night At The Museum
The Daily Photoist: Yh Yh..
The Daily Photoist: ROM ceiling
The ROM's Defeat in our March Madness Finals
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looks cool but are there any walls to hang anything on? nothing appears to be perpendicular to the floor.
The walls aren't meant to have anything on them, except for the lower level gallery (seen here in the shot with the woman vacuuming in the display case). Exhibits in the Crystal will be predominantly freestanding and the non-permanent ones will use a variety of movable display cases and interior freestanding walls; not the walls of the Crystal.
The building looks beautiful, but I am still going to reserve judgement until I see it fully installed.
I really hope the building does not overshadow the exhibits.
Would someone please add some updated photos of the new building to the "Royal Ontario Museum" wikipedia entry.
It's the dullest entry imaginable and now we have such amazingly cool photos!