The ROM wants  to soften the jagged edges around its  entrance.

There’s a plan  for a sweeping three-sided public space -integrating  trees and urban furniture  to make the area on Bloor Street more comfortable and inviting.

The plan  could cost an estimated $3-million and is  loosely inspired by the civic grace of public spaces in Paris and New York.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect responsible for the ROM’s “Michael Lee-Chin ” crystal  jutting  over Bloor Street, will not be part of the design team.

Instead,  Toronto’s  “Hariri-Pontarini Architects”  and  Montreal landscape architect Claude Cormier will handle the designs .

The new public space would stretch from Philosopher’s  Walk east along Bloor Street and turn the corner at  Queen’s  Park Boulevard.

The  museum has set an ambitious completion date: March 19, 2014, just in time  for the ROM’s centennial celebration.