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ESSAY I The Architecture of unconcealment: exploring Mona’s new wing

Mona reveals itself slowly. Unlike classical museum architecture that conveys authority through monumental facades and grand, towering entranceways, visitors enter the Nonda Katsalidis-designed building through a one-storey mirrored entrance, literally reflecting its human scale and obscuring the magnitude of the floor space below. Subsequent extensions to Mona’s original 2011 layout—Pharos and Siloam—complicated the structure through […]

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