OMS Stage, Winnipeg

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OMS Stage, Winnipeg

Part vibrant performance space, part luminous interactive pavilion...

Home to Winnipeg’s Jazz and Fringe festivals, Old Market Square is the hub of the city’s cultural activity, as well as a neighbourhood park outside of summer months. So, when the city set out an open competition for a stage to be a part of the square’s redevelopment, 5468796 Architecture – a local collective of young architects – were clear winners with “The Cube”, their innovative open-air performance venue that forms an interactive sculpture when not in use, thanks to the brilliant flexible metal ‘skin’ that’s “soft” enough to drape open like a curtain for events, and rigid enough to provide a solid barrier at all other times…

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