Beyond the badly-designed entrance, poor navigation, wasted space & shoddy workmanship, the worst outcome of the redesign is how the crown jewels of the museum's Asian collection were treated.    

The Chinese tomb complex consisted of a series of sequential gates, sentinels and other massive elements you passed through to ultimately reach the giant tomb. With no dedicated space in the new design, the elements were all dispersed & the tomb itself was jammed into a small walk-through space, with one side hitting the wall, so you can't even walk around it.  Likewise the three monumental Tibetan temple murals & giant Bodhisattvas, housed previously in an intimate, semi-darkened space where you could sit & meditate, hang now in a giant neon-lit hall dispersed amid a visual cacophony of thousands of objects floating in glass cases.

This is a total disgrace and one that any ROM Director who is serious about his stewardship of the museum's treasures must rectify. Let's hope it happens now.