MONA has a number of accommodation “pavilions”. They each have a name. One is named after architect Roy Grounds (1905-1981).
According to their website:
Sir Roy’s important to us: two of his heritage-listed buildings structure the current Mona site.
The museum entrance (the Courtyard House) and our library (the Round House) were built in 1957 and 1958 as homes for the Alcorso family. The former was inspired by Alcorso’s admiration for the Roman Villa. Grounds brought to the design his passion for ordered geometry, but also fashioned an elegant warped roofline and made extensive use of glass. The Round House, Alcorso’s parents’ residence, radiates from a circular central chimney, and was built partly with recycled convict-hewn sandstone.
Roy also designed the National Gallery of Victoria and, um, Wrest Point Casino. Whoops.
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