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

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Toronto Reference Library in Toronto, Canada

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Toronto Reference Library

1977 · Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Toronto Reference Library image

Largest branch of Toronto Public Library

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Toronto Reference Library

Toronto, Toronto, Canada · Exact work coordinates

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Toronto Reference LibraryToronto Reference Library

1977 · Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Atelier Peter Zumthor

1979 · Haldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19771979
PlaceToronto, Toronto, CanadaHaldenstein, Graubunden, Switzerland
Place contextToronto, Toronto, CanadaRepresentative site: Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland
Climate4°C · 13.7h daylight · 15 km/h wind10°C · 13.9h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Therme Vals
FocusArchitecture2 works in corpus
Architects
  • Raymond Moriyama
  • Peter Zumthor
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Moriyama Teshima Architects

Notable works

  • Therme Vals
  • Bruder Klaus Field Chapel
Typologies
  • library
  • bathhouse
  • hospitality
  • landscape
  • chapel
  • religious building
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • quartzite
  • concrete
  • water
  • rammed concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

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

No levers surfaced yet.

  • 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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