A slender, translucent roof overhangs this year's MPavilion, which Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens.
Pritzker Prize-winning Murcutt has designed the sixth annual summer commission, which was unveiled in Melbourne today.

This year's MPavilion is described as a "sleek and adaptable" shelter that rests lightly on the landscape.
It is distinguished by its large overhanging roof that is covered in a translucent fabric, and conceals LED lighting so that it can glow softly like a lantern at night.

"The MPavilion is firstly a real pavilion: historically, a pavilion is a tent, a light and temporary building," said Murcutt.
"I felt a crisp white building that at night could be lit from within its roof ? like a lantern in the Queen Victoria Gardens ? giving the pavilion a feeling of lightness, would sit comfortably in the location."
Murcutt orientated the MPavilion to face north in a bid to maximise views of the Yarra River. It has a simple rectangular plan and a minimal steel frame that and can be easily dismantled.

Its translucent overhanging roof, which is modelled on Murcutt's memory of once using an aircraft's wing as shade during a trip to Mexico, is designed to provide shade and rain shelter.
The roof is made from wing-like curved trusses along its edge, over which the translucent tensile membrane is stretched, evoking an aileron ? the edge of an wing on a plane that helps it turn.

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