The Art Gallery of Ontario, located in the capital of this Canadian province, Toronto, has always been a respected, but not brilliant, museum. Now the situation must change: the famous collector, billionaire Ken Thompson donated to the Gallery his collection of European and Canadian art worth $ 200 million and an amount of $ 45 million. The masterpiece of his collection is the painting by P. P. Rubens' Beating of Babies.
To ensure that the form matches the content, the management of the Gallery invited Frank Gehry, a native of Toronto (at the moment he has not built anything in his hometown), to work on a project to "transform" the museum. The architect said that the new complex will not be a repetition of his Guggenheim in Bilbao, but will be an original structure that matches its surroundings: low residential buildings, historic shopping buildings and Toronto's Chinatown.
