Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of Dutch firm OMA have been unveiled as the designers of the 2017 MPavilion, an annual commission billed at Australia's answer to the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
Koolhaas and Gianotten's MPavilion will be OMA's first completed project in Australia, located in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens.
It will be the fourth edition of the annual pavilion project sponsored by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation ? an organisation set up by businesswoman and philanthropist Naomi Milgrom.
The project has been in the pipeline for three years, says OMA managing partner David Gianotten in a video to mark the announcement ? which coincides with the closing of the 2016 MPavilion, a bamboo and wood structure by Studio Mumbai founder Bijoy Jain. "We've always looked at pavilions as key moments in the development of the office because in pavilions you can test things you cannot do in real buildings," says Rem Koolhaas.
Details of the design are yet to be released, but Koolhaas says he is keen to explore the contrast between the "vast territories of the world" and cities through the project.

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"The Naomi Milgrom Foundation?s MPavilion is now a project of international significance and we look forward to contributing to the architectural legacy it has engendered," said Koolhaas and Gianot...