A Museum Comes Into Focus

Daniel Libeskind has been refining his design for the Royal Ontario Museum, and Lisa Rochon likes what she sees of the changes. “Only last month, the Berlin-based Studio Libeskind presented to its client the museum’s northern façade rendered like a warrior’s mask with eyes slashed into its steel face armour. It looked like an angry work of autonomous architecture. Now, however, the ROM is being unmasked to reveal a beguiling human face.”