Hobart's Mona to get new hotel called HOMO

Hobart's Mona to get new hotel called HOMO
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Change is afoot at Hobart’s Mona, with owner David Walsh revealing plans for a new hotel for the museum.

To be called HOtelMOna or HOMO, the new property will be the result of an extensive design process.

“In fact we have now mooted the plans for more than twenty hotels for the site, starting long before Mona opened, but we finally have something that we feel justified in building,” Walsh wrote on the Mona blog this week.

“I believe a hotel should make exactly the sort of statement that Mona avoided: it should shout where Mona whispered.”

The hotel will include a library, a function centre, restaurant, bar, theatre, retail outlets and a space in addition to its 160 rooms, some of which will be designed by artists. Walsh confirmed that Marina Abramovic, Brigita Ozolins and James Turrell have already agreed to participate in the project.

The hotel is just one of a number of plans for the site outlined by Walsh with others including a casino, a playground , an extension to the gallery and a boardwalk.

Click on the below image to take a look at some of the plans:

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