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Leading light

When Covid-19 called halt to the 2020 MPavilion, the annual architectural commission conceived by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation (NMF) and birthed by big-note practices in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, the question asked: does a temporary structure premised on congregation still cut it?

No one could have preempted a pandemic in the detail of the design brief that issued in 2019 to Traudy Pelzel and Francesco Magnani of Italy’s MAP Studio, the young Venice-based practice tapped by the

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