hopePlate 723 · Canberra, Australia

Australian Parliament House

A parliament buried in a hill, so a public could walk over its government.

1988 · Romaldo Giurgola · Oceania

The chamber score

Kakadu

Peter Sculthorpe · 1988

A continent's own orchestra, not Europe's souvenir.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Giurgola's Parliament House, a landmark of democratic landscape architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Australian Parliament House through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Australian Parliament House was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.