This weekend’s Doors Open festival is a unique opportunity to crash some of Toronto’s greatest spaces. Important public buildings will provide an extra welcome for visitors; if you haven’t seen the historic Don Jail, Osgoode Hall, Queen’s Park or Fort York, now’s the time. But what about the city of the present and future? Here are some buildings and landscapes that point toward the Toronto that’s being built in 2016.
Ismaili Centre
Don Mills welcomed a world-class museum of Islamic art with the Aga Khan Museum in 2014, but the neighbourhood also got two other jewels: the adjacent Aga Khan Park and Ismaili Centre. The centre was designed by the great Indian architect Charles Correa with locals Moriyama & Teshima, and it usually restricts sightseers to specific tours but it is open all weekend. Its prayer hall or jamatkhana, capped with a sublime glass roof and filled with numinous light, is one of the great rooms in Toronto.
Source: The Globe and Mail
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