looms over Grange House and Park in downtown Toronto. The break-out staircase, nicknamed “the barnacle”, is on the back wall of the new galleries of the Frank Gehry (re)designed Art Gallery of Ontario. Clearly it was not enough for FG to simply clad the “back” of the building in titanium or stainless steel. No matter how well it might frame the original 1816 building, it seems that even the back wall also has to say something about the interior life of the building. And the view is apparently quite special! We like it just as much as the other more spectacular details of the front and interior of the AGO we’ve posted previously. Add Gehry or AGO to the search box and you’ll see them all. Thanks to Max for the image and info… (For lots more, go to Craig James Whites’ photostream on Flickr).
1 response so far ↓
1 Barbara McConchie // Apr 6, 2009 at 9:39 am
Dear Senior Wrangler, what a sight – it is a combination of something akin to a collage – a collage of architectures and then there is the aspect of the perennially blue blackdrop for the quintessential example of georgian architecture – a sort of framed painting. It is beguiling and quite an architectural treat with the explosive barnacle reducing the original buildings scale to that of almost doll house-esque proportions.
Leave a Comment