hopePlate 714 · Washington, United States

United States Capitol

A dome of a republic, burned, rebuilt, and still the most argued-over room in the country.

1800 / 1866 dome · William Thornton, Thomas U. Walter (dome) · North America

The chamber score

First Construction (in Metal)

John Cage · 1939

Percussion as a façade of steel.

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 seat of Congress, among the world's most famous civic buildings.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct United States Capitol through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if United States Capitol was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.