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Perret tower (Grenoble) in Grenoble, France

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Perret tower (Grenoble)

1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France

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Tower in France

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Perret tower (Grenoble)

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1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France

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Porto, Portugal

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1925Unrecorded
PlaceGrenoble, Grenoble, FrancePorto, Portugal
Place contextGrenoble, Grenoble, FranceRepresentative site: Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal
Climate17°C · 13.8h daylight · 6 km/h wind15°C · 13.6h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Boa Nova Tea House
FocusLandscape project6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Auguste Perret
  • Alvaro Siza
  • Álvaro Siza Vieira
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Atelier Perret Freres

Notable works

  • Boa Nova Tea House
  • Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
  • New Orleans (Rotterdam)
  • Gramaxo Foundation
Typologies
  • tower
  • landscape
  • hospitality
  • coastal building
  • restaurant
  • education
  • school
  • campus building
  • housing
  • cultural
Materials
  • concrete
  • concrete
  • wood
  • glass
  • stucco
Carbon signals

Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete

Concrete, Glass, and Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Stucco
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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
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