By Alex Bozikovic
Today (May 28) will mark the groundbreaking on two buildings of exceptional importance for the city: a religious and community centre for Ismaili Muslims and a new museum of Islamic art. They’re being driven by the Aga Khan, the Ismaili spiritual leader and one of the world’s great architecture patrons (this book gives background). He’s in town today for the ceremony.
You may not have heard much about it before today, because the Aga Khan’s agencies are volunteer-driven and seemingly too modest to do much PR. Too bad, because this project is something special: essentially, a religious community is giving Toronto a major art museum and a new park, all designed to very high standards
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