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    Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect known for designs with sharp angles and geometries. He was selected to redesign the World Trade Center site after 9/11. Libeskind also designed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Crystal addition features five intersecting crystal-like volumes of metal panels that turn the corner and illuminate the museum. It provides 100,000 square feet of new galleries, a grand entrance hall, and restaurants, transforming the ROM into a dynamic center for the city.

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    Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect known for designs with sharp angles and geometries. He was selected to redesign the World Trade Center site after 9/11. Libeskind also designed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Crystal addition features five intersecting crystal-like volumes of metal panels that turn the corner and illuminate the museum. It provides 100,000 square feet of new galleries, a grand entrance hall, and restaurants, transforming the ROM into a dynamic center for the city.

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    Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect known for designs with sharp angles and geometries. He was selected to redesign the World Trade Center site after 9/11. Libeskind also designed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Crystal addition features five intersecting crystal-like volumes of metal panels that turn the corner and illuminate the museum. It provides 100,000 square feet of new galleries, a grand entrance hall, and restaurants, transforming the ROM into a dynamic center for the city.

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    Daniel Libeskind is a Polish-American architect known for designs with sharp angles and geometries. He was selected to redesign the World Trade Center site after 9/11. Libeskind also designed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The Crystal addition features five intersecting crystal-like volumes of metal panels that turn the corner and illuminate the museum. It provides 100,000 square feet of new galleries, a grand entrance hall, and restaurants, transforming the ROM into a dynamic center for the city.

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    DANIEL LIBESKIND

    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM


    DANIEL LIBESKIND
    Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is
    a PolishAmerican architect, artist, profes
    sor and set designer. Libeskind founded
    Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his
    wife, Nina, and is its principal design
    architect.
    Libeskind began his career as an
    architectural theorist and professor,
    holding positions at various institutions
    around the world. His practical
    architectural career began in Milan in
    the late 1980s, where he submitted to
    architectural competitions and also
    founded and directed Architecture
    Intermundium, Institute for Architecture
    & Urbanism. Libeskind completed his first
    building at the age of 52, with the
    opening of the Felix Nussbaum Haus in
    1998
    DANIEL LIBESKIND
    Libeskind is perhaps most
    famous for being selected
    by the Lower Manhattan
    Development
    Corporation to oversee
    the rebuilding of the
    World Trade CenterCritics
    charge that it reflects a
    limited architectural
    vocabulary of jagged
    edges, sharp angles and
    tortured
    geometries,[30] that can
    fall into cliche, and that it
    ignores location and
    context.
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    The extension to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), now named the Michael Lee-
    Chin Crystal, is situated at one of the most prominent intersections in downtown
    central Toronto. It is the largest Museum in Canada and attracts more than a
    million visitors a year.
    Its new name is derived from the building’s five intersecting metal-clad volumes,
    which are reminiscent of crystals—inspired by the crystalline forms in the ROM’s
    mineralogy galleries. Libeskind created a structure of organically interlocking
    prismatic forms turning this important corner of Toronto, and the entire museum
    complex, into a luminous beacon.
    With the expansion, a new group entrance on Queen’s Park was created where
    visitors enter a spectacular atrium in which the two themes of the Museum, Nature
    and Culture, are distinctly showcased through intertwining staircases leading to
    the exhibitions above.
    The entire ground level is unified into a seamless space with clarity of circulation
    and transparency. The Crystal transforms the ROM’s fortress-like character, turning
    it into an inspired atmosphere dedicated to the resurgence of the Museum as the
    dynamic centre of Toronto.
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
    The design succeeds in inviting glimpses up, down, into galleries and even
    from the street. The large entrance atrium, the Gloria Hyacinth Chen Court,
    separates the old historic building from the new, providing a nearly complete
    view of the restored façades of the historic buildings. The Chen Court also
    serves as a venue space for all kinds of public events.
    Opened in June 2007, the extension provides 100,000 square feet of new
    exhibition space, a new entrance and lobby, a street level retail shop and
    three new restaurants. Studio Daniel Libeskind also renovated ten galleries in
    the existing historical building as part of the project.
    AWARDS
    2009 – XVII Concorso Internazionale – “Sistema d’autore Metra”, 2007 –
    Ontario Steel Design Awards – Canada Institute of Steel Construction
    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

    PLAN FLOOR PLAN SIDE ELEVATION


    ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM (INTERIOR)

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