The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto was first built from 1910 to 1914 by Darling & Pearson in a mix of Italianate and Neo-Romanesque, in yellow brick, and opened on March 19, 1914. Chapman & Oxley added a neo-Byzantine east wing, opened on October 12, 1933, with an Art Deco rotunda and a gold glass mosaic ceiling.
Daniel Libeskind designed the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, opened in June 2007 as part of the roughly CA$270 million Renaissance ROM project. The text calls the Crystal deconstructivist, about 25 percent glass and 75 percent aluminum over a steel frame. The whole building is 74,000 square meters (800,000 square feet).
Terrace Galleries and a curatorial centre by Gene Kinoshita were added in the 1980s. Water leakage was reported in October 2007, and renovations from 2024 to 2026 are correcting Crystal deficiencies with a larger skylight and an extra atrium staircase. The article names no client.
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