desirePlate 017 · Luxor, Egypt

Karnak Temple

The largest religious complex ever built, a forest of columns for a god of sun.

c. 2000–30 BCE · Successive pharaohs · Africa

The chamber score

Hymn to the Aten

After Akhenaten, reconstructed · New Kingdom

A forest of columns. The sun-disc still has a register.

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 temple precinct of Amun-Re, among the greatest sacred ensembles on earth.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Karnak Temple through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Karnak Temple was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.