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Art Gallery of Ontario : Toronto Building

AGO: Contemporary Arts Development, Canada design by Frank Gehry architect

post updated February 3, 2025

AGO – Art Gallery of Ontario proposal

Design: Gehry International, Architects – based in Santa Monica, L.A., California

adjacent to the OCAD Extension

Address: 317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Phone: +1 416-979-6648

AGO building, seen in Hannibal & Lost Girl, photograph taken on 1 September 2017, 12:54:
Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO Toronto building, Canada
photo : Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Frank Gehry project due to open Friday 14 Nov 2008

Art Gallery of Ontario Building

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) (French: Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto’s Downtown Grange Park district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. Its collection includes more than 80,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present day. The gallery has 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space, making it one of the largest galleries in North America.

Significant collections include the largest collection of Canadian art, an expansive body of works from the Renaissance and the Baroque eras, European art, African and Oceanic art, and a modern and contemporary collection.

Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO Toronto building
photo : Canmenwalker, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Since 1974, the gallery has seen four major expansions and renovations, typically considered a high number and unseen by most galleries of the world, and continues to add spaces. The most recent are the Weston Family Learning Centre which opened in October 2011 and the David Milne Research Centre that opened in April 2012.

Both projects were designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. Earlier major renovations were designed by noted architects John C. Parkin (1977), Barton Myers and KPMB Architects (1993), and most recently, Frank Gehry (2008).

Frank Gehry – AGO designer

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Design: Will Alsop Architect
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adjacent to Art Gallery of Ontario – AGO

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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