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ELIZABETH RENZETTI
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
July 11, 2007 at 3:27 AM EDT
LONDON — On the top floor of the Ismaili Centre in London there is an architect’s model for a building that will one day be built across the Atlantic Ocean: the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.
A 17th-century watercolour and gold painting of the Iranian Shah Abbas II and the Mughal ambassador at court from the London exhibition Spirit & Life: Masterpieces of Islamic Art. (The Aga Khan Trust For Culture)
The museum, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, combines Eastern influences with concessions to its host country’s climate. It’s early days yet – with luck, the museum will open in 2011 – but there are constant discussions about what is possible. The museum’s walls, which slope gently out from the ground, might be clad in Norwegian marble. “The plan is for the building to glow,” says Benoit Junor of the Aga Khan Foundation.
Related: Arts Journal – Contemporary Arts Review – The Unseen Islam, from Timesonline
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