hopePlate 713 · Washington, United States

Smithsonian Castle

A red sandstone castle, because a nation's attic needed a fairy-tale door.

1855 · James Renwick Jr. · North America

The chamber score

Symphony No. 3

Roy Harris · 1939

Prairie form. One long breath.

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 Smithsonian Institution Building, the original of the world's largest museum complex.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Smithsonian Castle through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Smithsonian Castle was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.