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Taylor Knights with James Carey

Built on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin nation

The National Gallery of Victoria’s current architecture commission – the sixth in a program that is now an annual event – is a pink-lined pool with an adjacent garden bed of indigenous wildflowers. A low ramp – also paved pink – separates these elements. At the end of the pool, a wide pink terrace is furnished with a wide pink bench from which the pink pool can be contemplated. The setting is the green space

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