hopePlate 626 · Boston, United States

Massachusetts State House

A golden dome over a common, a state's first good building.

1798 · Charles Bulfinch · North America

The chamber score

First Construction (in Metal)

John Cage · 1939

Percussion as a façade of steel.

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

Bulfinch's state house, a founding work of American civic architecture.

Commission the full chamber

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

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

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Massachusetts State House was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.