Art Gallery of Ontario, Architect, AGO Toronto, Canadian Architecture, American Property
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
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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:
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.
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
OCAD Extension – Ontario College of Art & Design, McCaul Street
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Design: Will Alsop Architect
Sharp Centre for Design: nicknamed ‘Tabletop’
adjacent to Art Gallery of Ontario – AGO
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Website: www.ago.net
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