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Compare works, bureaus, or a mixed set

Read a small selection side by side through images, place context, climate, typology, materials, carbon signals, accessibility, and related books.

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

The selected works stay in sync by slot, while the pins map where they sit inside the mixed set.

Site spread

Pins are normalized from the recorded work coordinates so you can read the set spatially.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1979 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

Atelier Peter Zumthor

1979 · Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19791979
PlaceLos Angeles, Los Angeles, United StatesHaldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Place contextLos Angeles, Los Angeles, United StatesRepresentative site: Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland
Climate23°C · 13.2h daylight · 16 km/h wind4°C · 13.9h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Therme Vals
FocusMuseum2 works in corpus
Architects
  • Arata Isozaki
  • Peter Zumthor
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Arata Isozaki & Associates

Notable works

  • Therme Vals
  • Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Typologies
  • museum
  • performance venue
  • bathhouse
  • hospitality
  • landscape
  • chapel
  • religious building
Materials
  • timber
  • quartzite
  • concrete
  • water
  • rammed concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter.

No dominant drivers yet.

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

  • Concrete
  • Concrete
  • Quartzite
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.
  • 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
Related books

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