Main entry:

Browne, Kelvin.

Title & Author:

Bold visions : the architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum / Kelvin Browne.

Publication:

Toronto : ROM, [2008]
©2008

Description:

189 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
A condensed edition of this title was also published.
Museum Builders 1906/1907, 2006/2007 -- The idea of museum -- 1914: The original ROM -- 1933: Queen's Park Building and Centre Block -- 1968: McLaughlin Planetarium -- 1984: Curatorial Centre and Queen Elizabeth II Terrace Galleries -- 2007: Renaissance ROM: Heritage Building -- Building the Royal Ontario Museum (fold-out) -- BoldVision: interview with Daniel Libeskind -- 2001-2007: The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal emerges -- Renaissance ROM: a tour.

Summary:

"The Royal Ontario Museum is situated among ivy-covered University of Toronto colleges and faculty buildings and a cluster of cultural institutions transformed by Toronto's architectural reawakening, early in the 21st century - the Royal Conservatory of Music, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. In this landscape, the Daniel Libeskind-designed Michael Lee-Chin Crystal rose to completion in 2007. The flagship of Renaissance ROM, an initiative of growth and renewal, it restores the logic of the Museum's original Beaux Arts master plan. The earliest ROM, now the Philosophers' Walk Building, opened in 1914, Additions followed in 1933, 1968, 1984, and 2007." "In this textual and photographic study, Kelvin Browne analysesthe evolution of ROM architecture and illuminates the buildings the tangible form and expression of the times and the bold visions of the Museum's founders and leaders."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780888544575 (bound)
088854457X (bound)
9780888544506 (paperback)
0888544502 (paperback)
9780888544582 (paperback)
0888544588 (paperback)

Subject:

Royal Ontario Museum.
Musée royal de l'Ontario.
Museum architecture Ontario Toronto.
Museum buildings Ontario Toronto.
Architecture Ontario Toronto.
Musées Architecture Ontario Toronto.
Musées (Édifices) Ontario Toronto.
Architecture des musées Ontario Toronto.
Architecture
Museum architecture
Museum buildings
Toronto (Ont.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Ontario Toronto

Added entries:

Royal Ontario Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 257581
Call No.: BIB 188104
Status: Available