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1933 · Kansas City, Kansas City, United States

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art image

Art museum in Kansas City, Missouri

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City, Kansas City, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Art museum in Kansas City, Missouri

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Field	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1933 · Kansas City, Kansas City, United States	Alvar Aalto Studio 1923 · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1933	1923
Place	Kansas City, Kansas City, United States	Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Place context	Kansas City, Kansas City, United States	Representative site: Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala Municipality, Sweden
Climate	11°C · 13.4h daylight · 14 km/h wind	8°C · 15.0h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Västmanlands-Dala nation
Focus	Museum	46 works in corpus
Architects	Steven Holl	Alvar Aalto
Linked context	Bureaus Steven Holl Architects	Notable works Västmanlands-Dala nation Seinäjoki Civil Guard House Vyborg Library Jyväskylä Defence Corps Building
Typologies	museum	education campus building house library building church sacred space housing
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
Carbon signals	museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	23 of 23 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.