October 2, 2012

Frank Gehry, Eyeing His Legacy, Aims To Remake Toronto




GEHRY, WHO GREW UP IN TORONTO, AND ART MAGNATE DAVID MIRVISH PLAN A MASSIVE, MIXED-USE COMPLEX, INTENDED TO SERVE AS BOTH MENS’ LEGACY.

When Frank Gehry was a kid, he would walk down Toronto’s King Street, collecting wood shavings that he would use to build “cities” in his grandma’s back yard--or so goes the legend, established in Salon’s 1999 profile. On Monday, the 83-year-old LA transplant announced he will return to King Street--this time, to build a very literal city.