Opening last month, the Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre sits on a courtyard scaled to the width of the Great Mosque of Isfahan.
The eight greatest new museums
By Fiona Macdonald for BBC | Culture | Architecture 17 October 2014
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
A business park on the outskirts of Toronto is the unlikely setting for a building offering a new home for Islamic art in North America. Opening last month, the Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre have been designed by two of Asia’s most celebrated living architects. Japanese Pritzker winner Fumihiko Maki created a structure that resembles a giant cardboard box with sections flipping open for the museum, and the centre is the work of the Indian modernist Charles Correa. The Aga Khan, a billionaire spiritual leader, is housing his hoard of Islamic art in the 10,000-square-metre building, which sits on a courtyard scaled to the width of the Great Mosque of Isfahan. (Gary Otte/AKDN)
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