ROM Crystal Ugliest Building Of The Decade, according to Washington Post

December 28, 2009

Royal Ontario Museum by Oliver Mallich

Washington Post named the $270 million Michael Lee-Chin crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, designed by Daniel Libeskind, the worst building built in the last decade. Philip Kennicott, the author of the critical article published yesterday, described the building as ugly and useless.

Kennicott said "Sure, there were a lot of Wal-Marts thrown up in the Aughts, but Daniel Libeskind’s addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto surpasses the ugliness of bland functional buildings by being both ugly and useless.” He added that even though from the street the glass structure is dynamic, in the inside a map to move around its "irrational and baffling dead spaces" is very much needed.

This sure is not the first time this building has been criticized. It has caused quite a controversy in Toronto, I would say, and has been talked about a lot since its makeover in 2007. Note exactly in a nicest manner, but I guess even bad publicity is publicity, right?

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