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After an international search that attracted more than 50 firms, the Berlin-based Studio Daniel Libeskind was chosen in February 2002 to lead the Renaissance ROM team*. Born in Poland and raised in the US, Libeskind was a virtuoso musician before he studied architecture. He has

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Architect Daniel Libeskind (left) and ROM Director and CEO
William Thorsell (right), July 12, 2005, sign the final major
steel beam raised in the Topping Off Ceremony, marking the
completion of the steel structure of the Lee-Chin Crystal.

*Renaissance ROM is a joint partnership with Toronto’s Bregman+Hamann
Architects, Haley Sharpe Design and Vanbots Construction.


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