Ania Jaworska’s Entrance Installation is a site-specific design that was commissioned for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Jaworska took the most prominent existing feature of this room as the generator of her design: a circular information desk that is now encapsulated in a formal play of arches and columns, flattened into silhouettes, and painted in neon yellow. Jaworska’s design challenges our expectations of how we use and understand buildings. For instance, the architectural column traditionally signifies the idea of stability, while the columns seen here require supplementary support and provide no structure. Through a process of establishing and questioning architectural classification, Jaworska’s entrance entertains multiple and contradictory readings. In many ways, it is and is not furniture, a sculpture or a pavilion. Its color, material and form contrast its context, command attention, and divide the space. Indeed, the installation itself “contains” a “history” because of the information desk at its center—now engaged in a way that amplifies the decorative features of the room’s perimeter.