Pavilion by Hany Armanious (b. 1962, lsmailia, Egypt, lives and works in Sydney), regrettably, was not realised. It was conceived as a representation of the most humble and ubiquitous of urban forms – planned by the artist as an exact replica of a generic milk crate that has been scaled up to 42’.1, measuring 13.7 metres high by 15 × 15 metres at the base, to be sited on grass – it was meant to be transformed by the artist into a grandiose and extravagant public oasis. Pavilion was a work of art of great wit and ingenuity, iconic and monumental, qualities achieved by unconventional means, by being unabashedly tongue-in-cheek and irreverent. The sculpture fooled with the Australian tendency to poke fun at, and in that way, to ‘de-monumentalise’, our monuments, in the way a monument like the Big Banana does. lt was quintessentially Australian – a work of public art for everyman – ‘nothing fancy’, while remaining quite special in its own unique way.