desirePlate 608 · Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Soumaya

A sequined cloud of hexagonal aluminium, a collector's museum as a vanity and a gift.

2011 · Fernando Romero · North America

The chamber score

Huapango

José Pablo Moncayo · 1941

A national concert piece for a national stone.

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

Romero's Museo Soumaya, among Mexico City's most famous contemporary buildings.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Museo Soumaya through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Museo Soumaya was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.