desirePlate 732 · Melbourne, Australia

Royal Exhibition Building

A world's fair palace that a city kept, UNESCO, a dome of Victorian ambition.

1880 · Joseph Reed · Oceania

The chamber score

Waltzing Matilda

Christina Macpherson / Banjo Paterson · 1895

The unofficial anthem under civic 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

The Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens, among Australia's great 19th-century civic works.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Royal Exhibition Building through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Royal Exhibition Building was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.