AGO selects team to lead the design of its expansion project
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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) has contracted Selldorf Architects, Diamond Schmitt and Two Row Architect to lead the design phase of AGO Global Contemporary, the museum?s proposed expansion project.
The three architects will work as a team to design an expansion that will display the museum?s growing collection of global modern and contemporary art. Annabelle Selldorf, of Selldorf Architects will lead the design, in collaboration with Toronto-based Don Schmitt of Diamond Schmitt and Brian Porter of Six Nations of the Grand River?s Two Row Architect as Indigenous architect.
?A project with global impact requires an international perspective, grounded in this land and this city,? said Stephan Jost, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario. ?AGO Global Contemporary is poised to launch the museum as a force in the international art world ? and this team will get us there. It?s a group that is unmatched in its experience and caliber, and reflective of AGO?s Global Contemporary vision. Selldorf Architects is a leader in museum design, having recently completed the Luma Arles in France, and currently working on The Frick Collection in New York. Just last year, Two Row Architect?s Fort Severn Resilient Duplex project was awarded the prize for social equity design. And Diamond Schmitt is putting Toronto on the world stage with David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City and the Ryerson Image Centre here at hom...
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