The Australian Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced former Pritzker winner Tadao Ando will design the 10th MPavilion commission in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens.

Ando is now the seventh architect selected for the prestigious five-month-long commission, which began in 2014 and has since hosted over 3,500 free events for more than 900,000 guests since its inception.

The Pavilion will become his first-ever realized design within Australia and follows last year’s installation by the Thai studio all(zone), which will be on view until April 6th before being reinstalled elsewhere in the city.

Milgrom added that she has long admired how the architect’s work “responds to and incorporates the particularity of a place into his design, and his belief that architecture can shape a society." 

According to Ando, he explains that his vision for the Pavilion “began with a desire to find a scene of eternity” within the 12-acre Gardens, adding it would be “Eternal, not in material or structure, but in the memory of a landscape that will continue to live in people’s hearts.”

Further details about his design are said to be revealed in May of this year. The Pavilion will go on view on November 16th and host a series of talks and other design-focused public events through the end of March 2024.