Archinect - News2024-05-04T11:14:34-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150053188/oma-s-mpavilion-2017-moves-to-new-permanent-home-at-monash-university
OMA’s MPavilion 2017 moves to new permanent home at Monash University Alexander Walter2018-03-06T14:49:00-05:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/r5/r5imtn61p7t4wn9n.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>A long summer season with well over 100,000 visitors and 477 free events over 133 days recently wrapped up for the <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/382/oma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OMA</a>-designed <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/582637/mpavilion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MPavilion</a> 2017 in Melbourne. </p>
<p>The structure will now commence a new, more permanent life after it has been announced that the pavilion will move from its temporary site at the Queen Victoria Gardens to a new home at Monash University in Clayton, a Melbourne suburb.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zf/zfzung9rza492qem.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/zf/zfzung9rza492qem.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: John Gollings. Image courtesy of MPavilion.</figcaption></figure><p>Conceptualized by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, this is the fourth MPavilion in a series of six to be gifted to the City of Melbourne by Australian philanthropist Naomi Milgrom. </p>
<p>Previous pavilions designed by <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/112044968/mpavillion-is-a-kind-of-southern-hemisphere-serpentine-pavilion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sean Godsell</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/138435290/photos-and-video-of-amanda-levete-s-mpavilion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amanda Levete</a> of <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/89559/amanda-levete-architects-al_a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AL_A</a>, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149992929/naomi-milgrom-appoints-oma-s-rem-koolhaas-david-gianotten-for-fourth-mpavilion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bijoy Jain</a> of <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/22250835/studio-mumbai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Studio Mumbai</a> have found permanent homes at the Hellenic Museums, in Docklands, and in Melbourne Zoo.</p>
<figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/s9/s9mapf8r71weldxc.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/s9/s9mapf8r71weldxc.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Photo: Timothy Burgess. Image courtesy of MPavilion.</figcaption></figure><p>"We are pleased that OMA’s MPavilion 2017 will be relocated to one of Melbourne’s universities; places of knowledge and debate," s...</p>