Letting the Light Out: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Letting the Light Out: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, Manitoba Letting the Light Out: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, Manitoba Architect and educator Lawrence Bird considers Qaumajuq’s rippling impact on its urban surroundings. By PHOTOS Lindsey Reid A billowing white building, like an icy cloud, has descended on the Prairie landscape. Mooring itself to an urban site, it reflects the long, glancing sunlight of the Prairie while also catching another kind of light: the midnight sun of Canada’s North. In architect Michael Maltzan’s words, the North’s cultural and physical geography is one of “ineffable qua...
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