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1967 · Westmount, Westmount, Canada

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Residential and office complex in Westmount, Quebec

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Westmount Square

Westmount, Westmount, Canada · Exact work coordinates

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Residential and office complex in Westmount, Quebec

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Field	Westmount Square 1967 · Westmount, Westmount, Canada	Alvar Aalto Studio 1923 · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1923
Place	Westmount, Westmount, Canada	Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Place context	Westmount, Westmount, Canada	Representative site: Uppsala Municipality, Uppsala Municipality, Sweden
Climate	0°C · 13.8h daylight · 15 km/h wind	12°C · 15.0h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Västmanlands-Dala nation
Focus	Housing	46 works in corpus
Architects	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	Alvar Aalto
Linked context	Bureaus Mies van der Rohe	Notable works Västmanlands-Dala nation Seinäjoki Civil Guard House Vyborg Library Jyväskylä Defence Corps Building
Typologies	housing tower office	education campus building house library building church sacred space housing
Materials	timber	concrete timber
Carbon signals	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	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	Access not recorded	23 of 23 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.