It’s a long way from the ruins of Yaxchilán in southern Mexico to Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, but Glenn Murcutt’s mind took precisely that flight of fancy through space (and time) while designing this year’s MPavilion.

Inspired by the fabric-covered, trussed wings of the light plane that carried him to the ancient Mayan citadel in the late 1980s, the pavilion – the sixth to be installed in the gardens since 2014 – beautifully embodies the architect’s maxim to "touch the earth lightly".