Slightly tangential, but still related, item:

The Prime Minister was just taken around Humayun's Tomb and garden in Dehli by the President of the Ismaili Council for Canada. That historic site, rehabilitated by the Aga Khan, was one of the gardens that the Aga Khan asked for the Wynford project landscape architect to visit in advance of designing the Toronto park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquopEGzz_4
 
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via Twitter, I came across the Aga Khan Museum facebook page, and while it is relatively new (looks like about six weeks) there is already some pretty neat content there that is different from the official museum web-site. There are several pictures and the like that would interest the crowd here.

Glass screens towards the inner courtyard:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...7292882.126064.485619821462818&type=1&theater

Rendering with a slightly different vantage:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...7292882.126064.485619821462818&type=1&theater

Older picture of construction, but from a different angle than we can normally get:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...7292882.126064.485619821462818&type=1&theater

While perhaps not completely unexpected given the nature of the project, I was still pleasantly surprised to see over 1,000 like since this page started just a few weeks ago!

Main facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/agakhanmuseumtoronto

I don't see anything similar for the cultural centre, however, I think that is actually not a bad thing, as there will be more surprises and discovery when the entire project completes, as a result. One of the comments on the site reads addresses the Ismaili Centre portion:

Dave GhelaKhesch writes:
I worked on the Ismailie Centre project. All I gotta say it's a work of art, and a magnificent project! Breathing walls & carpets are a few to name. Pretty challenging project, but will have a great outcome for the worshipers of this centre! Enjoy!
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BTW - follow the twitter hash-tag #AgaKhanMuseum ... looks like they are sponsoring something at the Toronto Centre for the Arts:
http://www.tocentre.com/georgeweston/sasharzarif
 
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Small video about the London, UK Ismaili Centre, which opened in the mid-80's and is located in the heart of the historic museum district there, across the Victoria & Alberta Museum, Natural History Museum and Science Museum:
http://www.theismaili.org/cms/1404/

Not as much space in London, so a small but special park is located on the rooftop.
 
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