Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto needs no introduction. The building’s Italianate exterior and the quite literally edgy addition by Daniel Libeskind have given the building prominence along Bloor Street and Queens Park since it opened in 1914. This week the art museum, which prides itself as being Canada’s largest, announced OpenROM: a renovation plan headed by Hariri Pontarini Architects that will, according to the designers themselves, “reintroduce ROM to Toronto.”
Hariri Pontarini’s design scheme improves on what is already there with architectural interventions aimed at making the galleries and museum entrances more accessible and visible. Other renovations will add 6,000 square feet of galleries, create
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