Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice, is open for entries for 2025 to participants from all over the world.

The competition is open to all architects, students of architecture, landscape architects, interior designers, artists and industrial designers who have a proven portfolio of design work. It is intended to foster and encourage the formation of multi-disciplinary teams.

Three teams will be selected as winners of the Warming Huts Competition: Arts + Architecture Competition on Ice from submissions of designs for a warming hut or art installation. Winning entries will be placed along the Nestaweya River Trail located on the Assiniboine and Red rivers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A jury will select the winning designs based on their creativity in use of materials, providing shelter, poetics of assembly and form, integration with the landscape, and ease of construction.

The budget for the creation and construction of each project is $16,500 (CAN). This budget is divided in the following fashion:

• up to $3,500.00 for the designers’ honorarium
• up to $7,500.00 (including taxes) for the purchase of materials and/or the employment of consultants necessary for the realization of the project. This budget is managed jointly by The Forks and the designer
• up to $4,000.00 for labour costs for the construction of the project
• up to $1,500.00 for Construction Management conducted by The Forks

The selected warming huts or installations will be announced to the public on 20th November 2024.

Started in 2009, Warming Huts: An Art + Architecture Competition on Ice has been melding world-class design and art with Winnipeg’s famous winters. The competition has seen entries from across the globe and caught the attention of international architecture publications and awards, as well as admiration from newspapers such as the New York Times.

Warming Huts is an open competition, supported by the Manitoba Association of Architects. Proposals for the competition are submitted online via the official website. Once entries are submitted, a blind jury selects designs that best “push the envelope of design, craft and art.”

Please visit the official website for further guidelines.

It's free to enter.