Our client wanted a functional receptacle, not an architectural spectacle. As such, MONA is carved into a peninsular outside Hobart, Tasmania, where its waffle concrete and Corten steel container will weather inexorably. A green roof and sculpture terrace restore the land’s height and a heritage-listed Roy Grounds house acts as the museum entrance. The building’s sculptural envelope is fully exposed internally. Visitors descend a spiral staircase to reach the lowest of three gallery levels, where a rock-hewn corridor leads to a sandstone-walled space. Planning of interconnections between galleries and levels was deliberately unconventional to encourage individual journeys of discovery.