Symbolic Public Form & the Library
Toronto, Canada

Torontorium
Toronto, Canada

City of the Snow
Montreal, Canada

Nam June Paik Museum
Kyonggi, Korea

1540 Bloor Street West
Toronto, Canada
Teeple Architects

Neilas Residence
Toronto, Canada
Teeple Architects

Bruce Mau Design Office
Toronto, Canada

Garden of Lost Footsteps
Verona, Italy
Eisenman Architects

Box of Changes
Guangzhou, China
Eisenman Architects

United Nations Building
New York, USA
HLW International

Akron Art Museum
Akron, USA
Coop Himmelb(l)au

Musée des Confluences
Lyon, France
Coop Himmelb(l)au

Passage Saint-Pierre
Montreal, Canada
Provencher Roy et Associés Architectes


OTHER INVESTIGATIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Bruce Mau Design

Man on the Moon

Extruded Aluminum Table

Memory & Artifact

The signage for the Art Gallery of Ontario originated from Gehry’s mission to unite the piecemeal galleries while marking the transition from the busy Chinatown to the quiet Grange park that the occurs at the gallery site. Numerous materials and typography were tested for their ability to be legible in two scales – civic and pedestrian - and various speeds – walking, biking, streetcar and automobile. For instance, materials such as lumisty films, metal meshes, etc. were designed to provide civic signage but ‘dissolve’ as one approaches the building. Similarly typography embedded with smaller text and typography composed of smaller text were designed to mediate the various faces of the gallery expansion.