This project attempts to unpack the loaded architectural-tectonic relationship the Plinth has with the public and its potential as a civic-minded museum. Six local institutions occupy the museum to form a forum of curators and creatives. Drawing on a legacy of modernism’s notion of the plaza, open horizontal planes shift upward and descend to inform program. Programming the Plinth allows the tower to become a totemic symbol of the museum while presiding over the administrative and operational functions of the plazas below.