Forks' warming hut garners international honours

A hut featured in the Forks annual warming hut competition has won international honours for its architectural design. 

The "hybrid hut" won the award in the temporary space category of the World Architecture News (WAN) Awards. 

• January 2015: Warming huts take shape at The Forks

The hut was designed and constructed at the Forks in January by Rojkind Arquitectos, a Mexican architectural firm. They were competing against hundreds of other architects to have their hut design selected for construction. 

"We were honoured to come and design a special piece for this past year's warming hut competition," says Michel Rojkind, founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos.

"This is a really, really, really big deal. One, this is a team from the unlikeliest of places being recognized for designing a warming hut. Two, this is Winnipeg and the Forks being recognized on an international level." says Paul Jordan, CEO of the Forks. 

"Congratulations to Rojkind Arquitectos on winning such a prestigious award for Hybrid Hut. This truly proves that something as simple and basic as a warming hut, created in sub-zero conditions, on shoe string budgets, can amount to internationally recognized architecture."

The WAN Awards are the world's largest architectural awards, with over 1,379 entries from 72 countries, and more than 300 international judges. The temporary spaces category was new to the awards this year.