Monash University’s Peninsula Campus Celebrates Official Opening of MPavilion
Monash University’s Peninsula campus celebrated the official opening of its new MPavilion today, a generous gift from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, with a ceremony attended by the Governor of Victoria, Her Excellency Professor The Honourable Margaret Gardner AC, Dr Naomi Milgrom AC and the pavilion’s architect, Ms Carme Pinós, alongside Monash University’s Provost and Senior Vice-President Professor Susan Elliott AM, and Professor David Copolov AO, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Major Campuses & Student Engagement.
MPavilion is Australia’s leading architecture commission, conceived and created by Monash alumna Naomi Milgrom AC to celebrate the intersection of architecture, art and design. This is the second MPavilion gifted to Monash University by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, with the first residing at Monash’s Clayton campus since 2018.
Professor Susan Elliott AM thanked the Naomi Milgrom Foundation for its generous gift and affirmed the shared vision for the new MPavilion.
“The Peninsula campus MPavilion will give our students, staff and our local community an inclusive gathering point which fosters connection between community, culture, nature and architectural design,” said Professor Elliott.
“Monash University is committed to Naomi Milgrom’s original vision of using MPavilions as a hub for community-led art, design and collaboration. We look forward to seeing the MPavilion by Carme Pinós become a community cultural focal point on the Peninsula, where architecture, art and design is utilised to bring communities together.”
Each year the Naomi Milgrom Foundation commissions an architect to design a meeting place for the Queen Victoria Gardens for the MPavilion summer season before the pavilion is then gifted to the people of Victoria.
MPavilion Peninsula was inspired by the ancient art of origami. Internationally renowned Spanish architect Ms Carme Pinós designed this structure with distinct triangular panels and timber lattice framework within a solid metal frame.
Naomi Milgrom AC expressed her delight that Carme’s innovative design would continue to inspire students and visitors alike at its new permanent home.
“The opening of MPavilion at Monash Peninsula campus comes as we mark a decade of bold architectural commissions by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation”, she said.
Students, staff, alumni, student association and club members, and the general public are all welcome to book the new Peninsula campus MPavilion and the existing Clayton campus MPavilion using this online booking form.