Every year since 2014 the Naomi Milgron Foundation commissions an architect to design a summer structure for Melbourne called MPavilion, and the sixth has just opened in Queen Victoria Gardens. The Australian architect Glenn Murcutt conceived a simpl
The base of the building is conceived as a vertical mixed-use city open 24/7, which invites people inside from its large arcades. The BMW Experience Center, containing a cylindrical glass car lift, is located on the corner of Southbank and City Road.
The main functions of the building are housed in four differentiated volumes articulated by recreational, public, and circulation interstitial spaces. The primary structure moves to the outside so the internal elements are minimized allowing maximum
The project proposes two intertwined towers, formed by stacked volumes containing different types of programs; the voids between the two towers define a continuous three-dimensional promenade that evokes the urban pattern of Melbourne... [+]
A sequence of public spaces interconnected by elevators, stairs, and escalators organize vertical circulation in the tower, with 359 meters in height and 76 floors containing apartments, cultural and leisure centers, a hotel, offices, and gardens...
A cantilevered structure crowns the tower offering panoramic views of Melbourne. The ETFE membrane facade presents different degrees of transparency, becoming translucent towards the edges to emulate the image of a cloud... [+]
The use of vegetation, both in the public spaces that crown the podium and the tallest tower and in the private terraces of the high-rises, responds to the desire to promote biophilia and ensure thermal comfort, air quality, and noise absorption... [
Carme Pinós (Barcelona, 1954) has inaugurated her pavilion for Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, which will host various cultural activities through 3 February 2010. Since 2014, each year the Naomi Milgrom Foundation commissions a different archite
The new space for lemurs – the smallest existing primates, originally from the African island of Madagascar – was to encourage controlled interaction between these animals and visitors to Melbourne Zoo. With this in mind, the project relied on two im
The MPavilion is commissioned every year by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation with the support of the City of Melbourne, Creative Victoria, and the State Government of Victoria. Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in the center of Melbourne’s Southbank
A glass box protects the building of the old train station while an extensive deck with a few openings covers the train tracks, generating a new green urban space in the city. These openings allow light and air to go through the deck.
Wishing to offer new civic spaces, the proposal incorporates a large cultural building – the Melbourne Room –, and a number of pedestrian connections under a glazed lattice that shelters the users without interrupting the views.
On top of the train tracks is the piazza – a new public space connecting the station with the walkway from north to south –, and an amphitheater looking onto a stage over the river. The new plaza functions as an integrating element within the urban f
Developed along the river, the proposal is conceived as an economic solution: only the central part of the railway tracks is covered. The proposal is regarded as one which doesn’t interrupt the running of the station while the construction works last
The reflection and the spreading of waves and curves is the metaphor that inspires the project, which includes a large rooftop garden made up of a great diversity of vegetation and sparse ‘islands’ that function as skylights of the new station.
The roof, inspired by the 19th century original design, is made of extruded longitudinal vaults in the direction of the rail tracks. The new addition seeks to blend with the historic building, working the connections of the station with the city. A s
