Tadao Ando will be raising MPavilion 2023 in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens for this summer. Every year since 2014, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has commissioned an architect to design a structure for a five-month festival, the idea being to later transfer it to a permanent spot in the Australian city. The authors of previous pavilions include Glenn Murcutt, Carme Pinós, Sean Godsell, Amanda Levete of AL_A, Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, and OMA.

MPavilion 10, the Japanese architect’s first project in Australia, presents geometrical concrete shapes enclosing a deliberately small space, recalling a traditional Japanese walled garden. The composition is the result of offsetting two squares. Within the premises, a central concrete column holds up an aluminum disc 14 meters wide. Inside, the pavilion’s floor is half paved and half reflecting pool.