desirePlate 683 · New York, United States

Woolworth Building

A cathedral of commerce, when a nickel-and-dime store could pay for a Gothic sky.

1913 · Cass Gilbert · North America

The chamber score

The Unanswered Question

Charles Ives · 1908

A façade with no answer.

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

Gilbert's skyscraper, the world's tallest from 1913, a masterpiece of Gothic Revival height.

Commission the full chamber

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

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

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Woolworth Building was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.