hopePlate 081 · Lhasa, China

Potala Palace

A fortress of white and red on a ridge, so a spiritual state would have a mountain.

1645 · Fifth Dalai Lama's builders · Asia

The chamber score

Tibetan gyaling and dungchen

Gelug ritual · Lhasa

A palace of thirteen stories. The horn is the thirteenth.

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 UNESCO winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, among the world's great monumental complexes.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Potala Palace through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

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Shift the feeling

What if Potala Palace was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.