desirePlate 226 · Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Gur-e-Amir

The azure tomb of Timur, from which an empire of tiles learned its colour.

1405 · Timurid builders · Asia

The chamber score

Shashmaqam, Ushshaq

Bukharan court · Uzbekistan

A registan is six maqams in tile.

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 mausoleum of Tamerlane, a prototype of later imperial tombs.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Gur-e-Amir through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Gur-e-Amir was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.