hopePlate 063 · Punakha, Bhutan

Punakha Dzong

A fortress-monastery at the meeting of two rivers, a country's old winter capital.

1637 · Ngawang Namgyal · Asia

The chamber score

Cham drum and dungchen

Drukpa ritual · Bhutan

A dzong is a score in white walls and horns.

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 Palace of Great Happiness, among Bhutan's most magnificent dzongs.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Punakha Dzong through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Punakha Dzong was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.