David Penner at Table for 1200, an annual event hosted by the organization he created, Storefront Manitoba. Photo by Red Photo Co.
Edited by Tom Monteyne, Jaya Beange, and Owen Swendrowski Yerex. With additional contributions by Eduardo Aquino, Jason Robbins, Ed Epp, Jac Comeau, Dan Wolfrom, Paul Birston, Gerhard Dehls, Chris Wiebe, Matthew Penner, Peter Sampson, Helio Rodrigues, Paul Ingham, Lindsay Reid, Jane Bridle, Don Minarik, Stationpoint Photographic, and Gerry Kopelow (Storefront MB, 2023)
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David Penner, who passed away in 2020, was one of Winnipeg?s most prominent contemporary architects?and, as a recent publication on his work confirms, also one of its most beloved. 
The book was edited, curated and designed by friends and colleagues Tom Monteyne, Jaya Beange and Owen Swendrowski Yerex. 180 full-colour pages of photographs and line drawings document 20 of Penner?s best buildings: from a Little Free Library and a Warming Hut (?Corogami,? created hors concours and smuggled onto the river ice); to a range of institutional and commercial programs?a museum, an arts centre, a hotel, a library?and several residences, including his own. Each building is accompanied by a brief description from the editorial team, and an extended quotation from a colleague or a client.  The coloured bars surrounding Penner?s Mere Hotel serve as a privacy device, and are intended to evoke an abstracted forest. Photo by Stationpoint Photographic
In keeping with David?s c...