Issue 11
 

Like architecture, ballet is a demanding art form. Mastery of a rigorous, established repertoire is a crucial prerequisite for expression -- and innovation.

Capturing this spirit in ways both grand and subtle, a new campus for Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto effectively melds heritage with modern elegance. The project centers on Northfield, a house built for statesman Sir Oliver Mowat in 1856. Embracing it is a U-shaped complex of delicately detailed, clean-edged glass and stone, with aluminum ceilings by Hunter Douglas. Designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg (KPMB) in a joint venture with coordinating architect Goldsmith, Borgal & Co., they remind us that after all, the school covers the best in contemporary ballet, too. More >

Netherlands: Van Gogh Museum
Architect: Kisho Kurokawa

USA: Linda Sloan Theatre
Architects: Calloway Johnson Moore & West


Russia: Moscow Music House
Architect: V. Krasilnikov

Belgium: Music Museum
Architect: Paul Saintenoy


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