AGA KHAN'S LEGACY IS ARCHITECTURAL INSPIRATION</I> - 2005-02-10

The winner of the 2005 Vincent Scully Prize, LISA ROCHON writes, has commissioned three new works to be built in Canada. To honour the presence of Ismailis (who number about 75,000 across Canada) and all Muslims who arrive daily to Canada from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, the Aga Khan has commissioned three new works in architecture designed by extraordinary architects: the Ottawa Centre for the Aga Khan Development Network and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, both designed by the sublime Japanese modernist Fumihiko Maki; and the Ismaili Centre, with its vast prayer hall to be designed by Charles Correa and constructed on the same site as the Toronto museum.