Edition Office and Australia glass artists Yhonnie Scarce cooperation design the national gallery of Victoria (NGV) inside a black cylinder of the pavilion. Titled In Absence, the pavilion explores the physical legacy of Aboriginal people's dispossession as a result of colonial land theft in the 18th century. 

Ngv Pavilion is the winner of the National Gallery of Victoria's (NGV) fifth architecture competition. Sitting on a paved area of the garden, the cylindrical form of the pavilion are made of dark-stained Tasmanian hardwood and bisected with a full-height cut. A path runs through the cut, aligned with with both the entrance to the museum and the bridge leading into the garden.

Inside,Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion. Two opposing circular chambers are lined with hand-blown glass yams – designed by Scarce – that appear to be dripping down between the black planks of the interior. The cut-through and the voids within each half of the pavilion are intended as a reference to the colonial strategy of "terra nullius" or "nobody's land". Colonisers declared Aboriginal settlements in Australia empty to allow for their seizure, dispossessing indigenous communities of their land and livelihoods.

"In Absence speaks directly to the richness of architecture, agriculture and industry of the traditional custodians of this land, the presence of which sadly lies hidden within the deep myopic shadows of this nation's history," said the Edition Office. The glass yams' amorphous shapes and glossy black texture reference Australia's natural resources and the land stolen from Aboriginal people. As well as yams, they invoke oil from fish, medicinal tree sap and eels – which are traditionally smoked inside charred, hollow trees reminiscent of the pavilion's voids.

As the sun moves over the garden, the light passing through the circular opening at the top of the void moves across these glossy black forms. Scarce described the effect as "the glittering light of the memories and echoes of thousands of years of occupation." A low black wooden bench offers a place for reflection.