desirePlate 517 · London, United Kingdom

The Shard

A splinter of glass aimed at the old city.

2012 · Renzo Piano · Europe

The chamber score

The Lark Ascending

Ralph Vaughan Williams · 1914

A green island, one violin climbing out of it.

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

Western Europe's tallest building, Piano's pyramidal tower over London Bridge.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct The Shard through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if The Shard was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.