Architect:

Expansion and renewal: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB)

Original building: Keith Wagland

Completion:

Expansion and renewal: 2006

Original building: 1984

Description:

The small Gardiner Museum might be overlooked with the grand Royal Ontario Museum across the street. But KPMB worked to give "this great small museum an intimate monumentality." The expansion added a third-floor pavilion, a new entrance, a glass terrace on the upper level and an expanded museum shop and clay studios. Its geometric forms balance stone, glass and narrow, horizontal bands create varied perspectives, while a small garden and  broad entrance stairs create an inviting presence on the streetfront.

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Address:

111 Queen's Park

Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7

Map/Directions/Info:

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The building is located south of Bloor Street on Queen's Park, across from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto's Bloor-Yorkville district.

Train: Yonge-University-Spadina line to the Museum station.

Nearby:

Early Learning Centre

Graduate House

Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building

Medical Sciences Building

Sharp Centre for Design

Links:

Gardiner Museum homepage

Where Toronto, feature article

KPMB Architects