desirePlate 005 · Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace

A basilica larger than St. Peter's, in a village that a president made a capital.

1990 · Pierre Fakhoury · Africa

The chamber score

Zaouli, climate of

Guro · Côte d'Ivoire

A basilica in the bush still owes the mask a tempo.

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

The largest church on earth by area, a monument of postcolonial ambition.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Basilica of Our Lady of Peace through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Basilica of Our Lady of Peace was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.