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16 For more information or to arrange a media visit, contact Gillian Chester at 204.954.1977 or gillian@tourismwinnipeg.com Winnipeg's latest addition to its skyline includes a transformative $500-million dollar downtown plaza, featuring the new Sutton Place Hotels (opening 2022/23), enclosed skywalks, boutiques, food hall with craft brewery, office space and green space, breathing new life into downtown. A must for architecture lovers is the " Architecture, Spies, and Hidden Codes" tour of the Manitoba Legislative Building, which showcases the unique architectural mix, culminating in the unforgettable Hermetic Code Tour. The Forks is a hive of activity for today's hottest architects, who are designing striking warming huts along the Red River Mutual Trail (Anish Kapoor/Frank Gehry), and the site that holds the city's award-winning pop-up restaurant on the frozen river, RAW:almond. Examples of Renaissance architecture abound at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, designed by Antoine Predock (take a "Discover the Building" guided tour focusing on architecture), or the Esplanade Riel pedestrian bridge. St. Boniface houses the iconic St. Boniface Cathedral that blends the originally built façade with the modernist design of Winnipeg architect Etienne Gaboury (walking tours available), and the St. Boniface Museum, North America's oldest wooden structure. The Exchange District boasts an astounding collection of turn-of-the-20 th - century cut-stone and terracotta architecture, as well as the modernist buildings of City Hall and Centennial Concert Hall, developing it into a thriving dining, shopping, and arts and culture district. Try your hand at creating your own masterpiece with a hands-on ceramic workshop at lot 15. Go on a self-guided Design Quarter Winnipeg Tour which celebrates Winnipeg's burgeoning architecture and design community. For those who appreciate good architecture with their meals, enjoy river views at Mon Ami Louis, North America's only restaurant on a bridge, or visit celebrity favourite – the elegantly restored 1912 mansion of 529 Wellington steakhouse. Stay in a historic property with opulent architecture at The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre, or for more contemporary tastes, check into the Mere or Alt Hotel. Thermëa Scandinavian Spa and Park Café at Assiniboine Park took special consideration into creating a calming, seamless environment incorporating the outdoors in their designs. Downtown's architecture ranges from the contemporary platinum LEED-certified Manitoba Hydro Building (Canada's first) and Bell MTS Place arena to the historic Hudson's Bay Company store to the modernist Winnipeg Art Gallery. Feast at one of the world's longest dining tables at the annual Table for 1200 More, which combines an outdoor culinary experience with tabletop design competition (May 2020). Winnipeg Design Festival is Manitoba's largest design event, showcasing the province's boundary pushers in the fields of fashion, furniture, graphic arts, landscape, architecture, urban planning and more through various activities. WINNIPEG BY DESIGN Winnipeg's architecture scene is grabbing the attention of the global design community and beyond for its intriguing blend of old and new, with three distinct waves of development: "Chicago-style" influenced turn-of-the-20 th -century architecture, Modernist and today's "Renaissance" 21 st century architecture. RAW:almond: Courtesy of Jacqueline Young Courtesy of Manitoba