In preparation for the first student intervention for the Inner Spaces/The Interior seminar in the summer of 2024, the owners at Dogs wanted to create a bridge between the past and the future. ‘Making Room for the New’ leaves hints and traces of the first installation, designed and installed by the owners themselves, that came to be so integral to the identity of the bar. It is at once an ode to the first twelve years at the bar, but it is also a gesture that describes the space needed to allow new ideas to flourish. The former panels, which represented an inverted mountain landscape through the manipulation of a single geometric tile, are reduced to steel wireframes. The patchwork of tiles that once shifted in tone to create two interwoven color gradients, are now ghosts, leaving the surrounding space bare and open to new potentials.