Frank Gehry has won some of the world’s most prestigious prizes for architecture — the Pritzker in 1989, the AIA Gold Medal a decade later — and became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2002. He was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2019.

So it may come as a surprise to learn that Gehry has contributed just a single permanent structure — the 2008 expansion of Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario — to both the country and city of his birth.