Toronto Aga Khan Museum + Ismaili Centre | ?m | ?s | Aga Khan Dev. | Maki and Associates

[gristle]

It's excellent news that this museum and cultural centre are finally going ahead!

 

[hari]

Was wondering if anyone had any updates on this project?

 

[urbandreamer]

I'll ask my friend next time I see him--he works at the firm.

 

[barit]

We are still waiting. Will this project ever get off the ground?

 

[walli]

There is a selection of the collection (over 200 items from the collection of over 1,000 items) currently on display in Berlin. A few sample articles:

Guardian UK (is a gallary)
Forbes
Bloomberg
Video report 1
Video report 2
Message from President at Berlin opening

This is one of the items that I had not read about in prior exhibitions ...

 

[walli]

According to the Globe and Mail, construction starts next month (IE May):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-a-revered-canadian-architect/article1537019/
"Moriyama + Teshima are also architects of record on three major new buildings commissioned by the Aga Khan, including his Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa and the Aga Khan Museum, both designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, and the Ismaili Centre by Charles Correa of India. (The latter two Toronto projects start construction next month.)"

 

[barit]

All of the trees on the property, including two mature spruce facing Eglinton Avenue and the thick row of pines abutting the Don Valley Parkway on-ramp have been chainsawed out of existence. I hope there weren't too many birds' nests destroyed. It looks like they have finally gotten their act together and are proceeding with construction.

 

[TheProfessor]

I've been told that the Aga Khan will be in Toronto next month, though I haven't heard whether the official ground breaking will take place. I'm crossing my fingers that this thing finally starts moving.

 

[Urban Shocker]

He'll be here in October, too, to deliver the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture at the Royal Conservatory on the 15th.

 

[walli]

I've been told that the Aga Khan will be in Toronto next month, though I haven't heard whether the official ground breaking will take place. I'm crossing my fingers that this thing finally starts moving.

Fingers crossed. Around a year and a half ago there was some media around he having been invited to the G8 Religious Leader's Summit, which is in June. Don't know about next month - till we hear confirmation it is hard to say. He has been known to come and then return shortly thereafter for important engagements.

He'll be here in October, too, to deliver the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture at the Royal Conservatory on the 15th.

Yes - this has been widely been reported:

http://www.icc-icc.ca/en/projects/symposium.html#2010
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/music/koerner-hall-draws-yo-yo-ma/article1542295/
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/04/21/koerner-hall-1011-season.html

Speficially, the Globe and Mail article stated:

"The landmark speaker in this year’s series of lectures and master classes will be the Aga Khan, who will deliver the LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture in October, presented by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship."

 

[Hipster Duck]

I'm sometimes surprised we still even follow this. Wasn't this project first announced before Daniel Libeskind was selected to redesign the ROM?

 

[junctionist]

I suppose you might as well be Waiting for Godot. Given the demolition of Bata, the setting is appropriate: dull and featureless with but a tree perhaps.

 

[hari]

Why naysay?

 

[barit]

Why naysay?

Try reading this thread. A lot of people are pissed off that the Bata International Centre building was not preserved as it should have been.

 

[ganjavih]

Well, it's gone now, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. We may as well focus on the future of the site and the coming of a great new asset for Toronto.