Winnipeg Free Press

The federal government will announce today it is now prepared to contribute $100 million for the capital costs of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Free Press has learned. The federal funding, which is key to making the dream of Winnipeg's Asper family a reality, will also come with an announcement that New Mexico architect Antoine Predock has won the international design competition for the signature structure to be built at The Forks. Predock's design is a complicated architectural and engineering marvel that features a tower rising 100 metres into the sky, nearly as tall as the highrises at Portage and Main. Some people have had a hard time understanding his unusual design, which is actually carved into the earth before rising on a stone base and dissolving into an abstract array of glass, topped by a soaring spire. Predock has called it "a symbolic apparition of ice, clouds and stone."