“Our collective cultural efforts of the 1960s were vastly more adventurous than they are today. Ontario Place is often described as ‘utopian,’ which is right in two senses. One, in its futurist ambition: the architecture embodies modernism’s faith in social progress, technological advances and radical innovation for its own sake. And two, in its production: It was built incredibly fast, driven by a relatively young architect – and it wasn’t entirely clear what the place was for.”