PLEASE NOTE: This post is based of a poor quality copy of a copy of an image, and is not meant to be Official. It is all speculation.

This weekend while in Canada, President Nelson showed off a new render for the Winnipeg Manitoba Temple. Someone posted a blurry copy of the render on Facebook, and I have poured over it all morning. I have been comparing it to the old official render so that I can update my model. (If anyone has a higher resolution image, I would love it, by the way.)

I have made a preliminary render with changes to my model, and I wanted to share a few things I have noticed.

First and most obvious, the new design appears to be brick with precast concrete trim, whereas the old temple was to have been Tyndall stone. In the Tyndall version, the inscription (Holiness To The Lord, The House Of The Lord) was in a rectangular inset in the base of the spire, above the door. In the brick temple, this inscription is now in what appears to be a pre-cast concrete panel above the door. The base of the tower is shorter on the new brick temple temple, about 2/3 the height of the old one. This in turn makes the whole spire a little bit shorter. The spire itself appears to be tin, rather than copper now. Where the Inscription used to be, there is now a circle with keystones. It appears there might be similar details on the other gables of the temple as well.The entryway and the spire appear to have been moved forward about 6-12 feet.

The edges of the gables now have a new column detail that the Tyndall version did not have.

The primary stained glass on the front of the building has been divided into smaller panels. as a consequence, it is most likely that the crocus pattern that appeared in the Tyndall version of the temple will be replaced with something less intricate.

I have finished my model for Winnipeg Manitoba temple. I have been distracted by other projects lately, and have not worked on temples as much as I wanted, But the church released an official render for Winnipeg:

Unusually for the official render, Winnipeg has… issues. Now, I know, I make mistakes in models all the time. However, I don’t do this for a living, and I am far from a professional. Also, I am having to dig up details as I go along, rather than working from official documents most of the time, so I am bound to get things wrong.

On the Winnipeg render, I spotted the following issues:

• From an artistic standpoint, the lighting is very odd. To yellow, but that’s personal taste I suppose.
• The textures, especially the stone on the temple, are very flat and lack depth. Many times you can see a brick texture INSIDE the brick texture.
• Things that are duplicated look like they are copy and pasted, rather than similar constructions. (This is easy to fix, and should not have been so obvious.)
• There are at least 2 holes in the temple model where the model was never finished.
• Background buildings in the render have textures that have been applied wrong, and windows stretch diagonally across the surfaces. (Note, these 3 story apartment buildings don’t actually exist, and that area appears to be zoned for 2 story single family homes.)
• There is a bench floating 3 feet in the air.
• There is a tree floating 3 feet in the air with a see-through trunk.
• There is a small tree completely missing its trunk.
• The primary stained glass window is a poor Photoshop of an architectural plan drawing. The texture of the main rosette does not line up within the window, being cut off at the top and a gap at the bottom.
• An architectural reference line is visible within one side of the stained glass window

Some of this was obvious to me when I first saw it, others I found when looking for details for my model. It made me think that even I could do better than that. So I gave it a go.

So here is my take on it. Let me know what you think:

I hope to have a video in a week or two for you. Meanwhile, here is another angle.

Development images