Review: MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt

By Penny Craswell

Australia’s only Pritzker Prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt is best known for his long, horizontal, climate-responsive architecture; shed-like residential buildings made for viewing the Australian landscape.

MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt
MPavilion 2019 by Glenn Murcutt. Photo:

This year, Murcutt has been commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation to design the sixth annual MPavilion, a project that brings temporary architecture to Queen Victoria Gardens in the heart of Melbourne. His response has been to create a long, horizontal shed-like structure – but this is where the similarities to his other projects end.

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