When does it open? Is there a date?

The museum web-site has listed a 2013 opening for some time now, but does not provide any more granularity than that. Given the high profile groundbreaking ceremony, I'd speculate that it may depend on alignment of some busy schedules, in addition to everything being ready.
 
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Thanks for the updates klb and current. I can't overstate how eager I am to see the project come to completion - haven't really felt this way since the heady days of the "cultural renaissance".

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Thanks for answering my question ( inadvertently asked twice ), walli. The ROM centenary is on March 19th 2014, and I was curious whether the Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre opening might conflict.
 
very sandstone.

I don't think this white looks like sandstone at all.

Consider the museum's white:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104846363423995421569/AgaKhanWynfordParkConstructionProjects19#5767926369561082066

with the Vancouver Ismaili Centre's sandstone:
http://www.theismaili.org/cms/858/Gallery-architecture-of-the-Ismaili-Centre-Burnaby

While I'm not sure if it is as bright, the cladding of the Toronto projects looks much closer to the Ottawa Delegation's neoparies cladding:
http://raic.org/honours_and_awards/awards_gg_medals/2012recipients/ismailiimamat_e.htm
 
It doesn't look like neoparies or sandstone. My guess is white marble given the texture. It's stunning nonetheless - very much "an object in the landscape" kind of architecture that the original Bata HQ was. Thanks for posting the pic walli.

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I imagine you're both right. Don't know what the material is, but I enjoy the sandy puttiness in walli's photo. It strikes me as having depth and being changeable, a refreshing change from ubiquitous Toronto beige-y stucco and concrete.
 

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