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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:51:48 +0530
Touch of titanium won't transform Toronto: Gehry
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Toronto-born Gehry, best known for Bilbao's undulating titanium clad
Guggenheim Museum, said his redesign of Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario
would not transform the city.
"Bilbao ... was an industrial town and they consciously tried to change
the character of the town and they succeeded. I was only one part of
it," he told reporters.
"When you come to a city that is established and all, it's hard to say
that you are going to have the same kind of impact because there is
already a persona in Toronto and it has its own character. So one little
remodeling of an old building isn't going to turn the whole community
around."
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cont'd....
http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-02-14T204352Z_01_N14359181_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ARTS-CANADA-GEHRY-COL.XML&archived=False