3D LDS Temples - 3D LDS Temples by Brian Olson

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:

Official Church render of the temple design. Copyright Intellectual Reserve.

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: