Ontario Place Pods and Sphere Without Science Center
So... in short I don't like moving the science center, but I do think some kind of educational/touristy public facility in Ontario Place makes a lot of sense.... Frankly if Science Center as it is didn't exist, it would probably be the place to put one.
Thoughts on what else might be appropriate for the site? Especially in terms of re-using the pods and cinesphere?
I've thought in the past that merging the ROM, Science Center (and others?) into an Ontario Science Center / Museum System might make a lot of sense, let OSC as it is focus on the natural sciences (given the location) and things they already have specialized facilities for, ROM be the centerpiece for traditional museum roles and probably set up a new technology and engineering focused science center like thin in Waterloo Region, associated with the university and tech sector. This kind of systematized approach still seems attractive, but I'm, again, kinda drawing a blank on what a good specialization for OSC would be...
I almost wonder if one could come up with an urbanism/urban planning/architecture and design based version of a science center format for it, but that feels an awful lot like just playing to my interests...
EDIT: and as a short postscript, the design exchange, though not really public at the moment, would seem a much better site for any kind of design and urbanism type thing.