When you visit MPavilion this coming season, you’ll of course experience the work of a great Australian designer—our 2019 architect is Glenn Murcutt AO, after all. Keep an eye out, too, for the work of another Australian great: this year we’re honoured to have Melbourne-based designer Chris Connell creating a very special series of stools…
Read MoreYou won’t miss our onsite staff at MPavilion 2019! This season, we’re so excited to have our staff uniforms designed by the incredible team at The Social Studio in collaboration with the one and only Beci Orpin. Commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation to create striking and durable unisex uniforms for use in Glenn Murcutt…
Read MoreDrumroll, please… Bringing you the MPavilion 2019 program of free events! We’re so excited to launch the program for our forthcoming season, taking place in the Queen Victoria Gardens from 14 November 2019 to 22 March 2020. MPavilion 2019, designed by Australia’s only Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Glenn Murcutt AO, will host over 400 free…
Read MoreMPavilion 2018 by Barcelona-based architect Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós drew international attention and a lot of local love when it arrived in the Queen Victoria Gardens last season. So we’re thrilled to share the news that Carme’s MPavilion has won Gold at Australia’s prestigious Good Design Awards, and has been shortlisted at the…
Read MoreWe couldn’t be more excited to unveil MPavilion 2019, this year designed by Australia’s only Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, Glenn Murcutt AO. The refined, minimal design reflects Glenn’s significant contribution to climate-responsive architecture. Celebrating the fiftieth year of Glenn’s globally influential design practice, MPavilion 2019 will be a milestone summer attraction built in the Queen Victoria Gardens. MPavilion…
Read MorePlease note: Applications are now closed. The MPavilion 2019 season of free events is going to be huge—and we want you to be involved! Expressions of interest are now open to be a part of our sixth season, happening between 12 November 2019 and 22 March 2020. Collaborate with us by hosting a workshop, talk,…
Read MorePlease note: Applications are now closed. For the first year ever, we’re calling out to young people aged 15–25 to be part of the exciting MPavilion 2019 season of free events! If you have a great idea for an event you think would work well inside MPavilion—which will open in the Queen Victoria Gardens in…
Read MoreThe international speakers of the Living Cities Forum 2019 have been grabbing headlines ahead of the events in Melbourne and Sydney later in May. National media has spotlighted a number of the architects and urban design thinkers who will gather at the forums to interrogate the theme Future Needs—including our MPavilion 2019 architect Glenn Murcutt AO. The…
Read MoreMPavilion and Melbourne were again in the global spotlight as we announced Glenn Murcutt AO as our distinguished architect for MPavilion 2019. Australia’s only Prizker Prize recipient made headlines in design media across the United States, Europe and Asia, as well as here at home, and was praised for his influential practice and dedication to…
Read MoreWe’re incredibly excited to share the news that Glenn Murcutt AO, Australia’s most internationally recognised architect, is our esteemed designer of MPavilion 2019! Glenn is the only Australian architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker Prize, awarded for his environmentally sensitive and responsible designs with a distinctly Australian character. He has also received the Alvar Aalto Medal, the Australian Institute of…
Read MoreWith our season of free events about to close on Sunday 17 February, we’re celebrating the community’s overwhelming response to MPavilion 2018, designed by Carme Pinós of Estudio Carme Pinós. The 2018/19 MPavilion program season has been our biggest yet, with 520 events encompassing talks and public lectures, open workshops, multidisciplinary performances, installations and kid-friendly experiences. Events were spread…
Read MoreEach year at MPavilion we aim to bring you an expansive season of free events in collaboration with people from all walks of life in the community, across architecture and design, arts and sciences, technology, education and more. MPavilion—an initiative of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation—is for you, with you. So we’d like to know how we…
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