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…
OMS Stage, Winnipeg