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1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) image

Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

New Canaan, New Canaan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Comparison

Field	Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) 1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Amateur Architecture Studio 1997 · Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1997
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Yinzhou District, Yinzhou District, People's Republic of China
Climate	2°C · 13.6h daylight · 7 km/h wind	25°C · 13.0h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Ningbo Museum
Focus	Museum	1 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Wang Shu
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Ningbo Museum
Typologies	museum house	museum
Materials	glass	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.