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1976 · Osaka, Japan

Azuma House exterior view

Front elevation of Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

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Row House in Sumiyoshi

Osaka, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Front elevation of Azuma House in Sumiyoshi, Osaka.

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Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0 · licensed

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Field	Row House in Sumiyoshi 1976 · Osaka, Japan	Alvar Aalto Studio 1923 · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1976	1923
Place	Osaka, Japan	Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Place context	Osaka, Japan	Representative site: Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala Municipality, Sweden
Climate	19°C · 13.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind	12°C · 15.0h daylight · 19 km/h wind · via Västmanlands-Dala nation
Focus	House	46 works in corpus
Architects	Tadao Ando	Alvar Aalto
Linked context	Bureaus Tadao Ando Architect & Associates	Notable works Västmanlands-Dala nation Seinäjoki Civil Guard House Vyborg Library Jyväskylä Defence Corps Building
Typologies	residence urban house	education campus building house library building church sacred space housing
Materials	concrete	concrete timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	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	Private or restricted	23 of 23 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Tadao Ando: Complete Works	No linked books yet.