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2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

Tour Granite image

Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Tour Granite

Nanterre, Nanterre, France · Exact work coordinates

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Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Comparison

Field	Tour Granite 2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Adjaye Associates 2000 · London, England, United Kingdom
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	2000
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	London, England, United Kingdom
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Manhattan, Manhattan, United States
Climate	7°C · 14.0h daylight · 7 km/h wind	4°C · 13.5h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Studio Museum in Harlem
Focus	Office building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	David Adjaye
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Studio Museum in Harlem Nobel Peace Center Rivington Place Sunken House
Typologies	office	museum civic building building house campus building memorial pavilion housing
Materials	stone	stone
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.