OCAD’s New Look

The Ontario College of Art & Design has a new building rising in downtown Toronto, and Lisa Rochon is already impressed with the “flying box” design and “hallucinatory” architecture. “In this scenario, technology has been twisted into art to produce an exhilarating building. A public square has been rammed directly into the architecture, sending sparks flying from the impact… Fully executed and carefully resolved, the building and civic square at OCAD could become Canada’s version of the Centre Pompidou.”