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1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Perret tower (Grenoble) image

Tower in France

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Perret tower (Grenoble)

Grenoble, Grenoble, France · Exact work coordinates

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Tower in France

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Field	Perret tower (Grenoble) 1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Arthur Erickson Architects 1963 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1925	1963
Place	Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Place context	Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Representative site: Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
Climate	14°C · 13.8h daylight · 3 km/h wind	15°C · 14.0h daylight · 15 km/h wind · via Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Focus	Landscape project	14 works in corpus
Architects	Auguste Perret	Arthur Erickson
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Perret Freres	Notable works Museum of Anthropology at UBC Cedarvale station Yorkdale station 1 Cal Plaza
Typologies	tower landscape	museum education campus building house performance venue building civic building landscape
Materials	concrete	brick glass
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Brick and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.