Also in today’s edition: Game 7, Canada’s growing population and another Morrisseau knockoff
Good morning. After clawing back from a 3-0 hole, the Oilers fell 2-1 to the Panthers in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final last night. More on that below, along with the sudden demise of the Ontario Science Centre. But first:On Friday, the Ontario government pulled the plug on the Ontario Science Centre, the 55-year-old provincially owned museum that’s as iconic to Toronto architecture enthusiasts as the Guggenheim is to New Yorkers.
The government said yesterday that the dicey roof meant the Ontario Science Centre wouldn’t be safe to occupy after the end of October, and required up to $40-million in repairs. But as The Globe’s architecture critic, Alex Bozikovic,, those professional engineers were actually fairly moderate in their recommendations: No more than 5 per cent of the roof panels needed to be replaced by November, and the rest of the roof could be repaired over 10 years.
”The new deal agreement has no specifics; the province only agreed to discuss ‘partnership opportunities,’” Alex Bozikovic told me. “No one has said anything meaningful about how the city will run the science centre building.” Last year, Fordthe idea that housing or a school or maybe a community centre could pop up in its place. Yesterday, in anwith The Globe, Chow said the city couldn’t take on the responsibility – or the cost – of fixing the building up.
But somebody’s going to have to shell out. “During the austerity years of the 1990s, our governments established some weird compromises around maintaining public institutions,” Bozikovic said. “With schools and buildings in particular, the idea was to keep the place open, but stop maintaining the building. This didn’t work. The costs can’t be avoided.”the boost.) “The Ontario government could find the money if they wanted to; the truth is, they don’t want to,” Bozikovic said.
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