hopePlate 623 · Boston, United States

Boston Public Library

A palace for the people, because a city decided books deserved marble.

1895 · McKim, Mead & White · North America

The chamber score

Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland · 1944

A house that wanted to be landscape.

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 McKim building, among America's great public libraries.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Boston Public Library through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Boston Public Library was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.