desirePlate 044 · Pretoria, South Africa

Union Buildings

A semicircle of sandstone from which a union, then a republic, then a democracy has been administered.

1913 · Herbert Baker · Africa

The chamber score

Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate

Township traditional · 20th c.

A fortress of the Cape still has to hear the march.

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

Baker's government complex, the official seat of the South African presidency.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Union Buildings through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Union Buildings was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.