What the starchitects did to Toronto

Frank Gehry died this month at the age of 96. Let’s hope the era of the “starchitect” dies with him.

The term was coined to describe the superstar architects whose work everyone simply had to have. Mr. Gehry was the prime example. His Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain drew millions of tourists to see its sweeping, swirling form when it opened in 1997. The Toronto-born Mr. Gehry became perhaps the world’s most sought-after architect.