Award winning architect Nonda Katsalidis has made his way to another distinction.This time the Australian Institute of Architects awarded him with the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture for his design of the largest subterranean MONA, a private art gallery in Hobart, Tasmania.
Katsalidis worked closely with gambling millionaire David Walsh to come up with the blueprint. Last year the museum attracted 600,000 visitors winning the Tasmania Tourism Award. Tasmania is an island state with the highest percentage of art-lovers and artists than any other state in Australia.
Katsalidis was born in Athens in 1951 and emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of five. Almost all of the buildings he has designed among which museums and skyscrapers, have been awarded. The Eureka Tower, one of his greatest works and the biggest tourist attractions, is the tallest residential building in Melbourne and among the tallest in the world.
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