ROM Crystal named one of world's ugliest buildings
A tourism web site has named the Royal Ontario Museum’s Crystal one of the world’s top 10 ugliest buildings.
VirtualTourist.com released its second annual list of the “World’s Top 10 Ugly Buildings,” and the Royal Ontario Musuem’s Michael Lee-Chin crystal slid in at No. 8.
"8. Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Royal Ontario Museum; Toronto
What I.M. Pei’s pyramid is to the Louvre, so is the relatively new Michael Lee-Chin Crystal to the Royal Ontario Museum. While many praise the glass structure, just as many are troubled by the incongruity to the original, more traditional museum that still sits directly beside it."
Giampiero Ambrosi, general manager of VirtualTourist.com, said the buildings were chosen by the site’s one-million-plus members and editors from a list of 30 front-runners.
