Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has been commissioned to design the site of MPavilion 2023, which will open 16 November 2023. Ando is one of Japan’s leading contemporary architects and is known for his striking geometric interventions in nature and his precise, considered use of concrete. Over the past decade, MPavilion has worked with the […]
Running since December last year, MPavilion 2022 has well and truly kicked off with a summer program full of local and international design exploration. For its ninth iteration, MPavilion’s design commission was by Bangkok-based design studio all(zone), which is led by internationally-acclaimed architect Racharporn Choochuey. all(zone)’s design for MPavilion 2022 embraces colour, layering bespoke nets […]
In accepting the MPavilion 2022 design commission, Bangkok’s all(zone) forges permanence in favour of lightness, sustainability and, above all, joy. “I always wonder why if it’s sustainable, it has to be brown,” Rachaporn Choochuey says from the office of her Bangkok studio. “We live in a world where material scientists are doing incredible things with […]
Drawing inspiration from all(zone)’s billowing and striking canopied structures in its MPavilion 2022 design, Re-pete is a lightweight chair with sustainability at its core. Designed by University of Canberra trio Sam Tomkins, Ian (Max) Maxwell and Dr Ben Ennis-Butler, Re-pete is the 2022 chair design commission for MPavilion – selected from more than 40 design […]