Cornish Library
Public City’s Role
Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Team
Wolfrom Engineering, MCW Consultants, Michael Dumontier
Client
City of Winnipeg
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The Cornish Library is situated at a pivot point between neighborhoods. Where Sherbrook Street meets West Gate, this century-old Carnegie building unites three distinct Winnipeg communities: Armstrong Point, Wolseley, and West Broadway. A glass reading room floats above the landscape on a single column, turning infrastructure into art through collaboration with artist Michael Dumontier. The addition frames the meeting of city and nature—Maryland Bridge to the west, the Assiniboine River below, gardens unfolding at ground level. Below, a stormwater garden with native plants and tamarack trees creates new connections between civic architecture and river ecology.
