Since its inception in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art in Winnipeg.
The open competition is supported by the Manitoba Association of Architects and has seen entries from across the globe and caught the attention of international architecture publications and awards.
Nearing the end of January, competition winners travel to Winnipeg to begin construction on their warming hut. The weeklong building blitz gives designers a chance to watch their vision come to life while allowing the public to watch them at work.
Warming huts are then brought out to the River Trail where visitors skate and interact with the art. This year?s winning installations include designs from Noël Picaper, Onomiau (Office for Nomadic Architecture), Ashida Architect & Associates Co., Modern Office + Sumer Singh, MTHARU/Mercedes + Singh, and additional huts from the Manitoba Building Trades + Mistecture Architecture and Interiors Inc. THE DROOMBOK

Noël Picaper, Onomiau (Office for Nomadic Architecture)

Paris, Strasbourg, France
Photo courtesy of warminghuts.com.
The Droombok is a fantastic creature living along the River Trail in Winnipeg. Noël Picaper, Onomiau created a space in which the surrounding nature finds its way inside. Thanks to its bestial outline and its scale, the structure?s relation with its context, is in constant change: the sun produces a layer of moving shadows, breezes enter freely and the snow is softly ...