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2007 · Manhattan, Manhattan, United States

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Skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

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Manhattan, Manhattan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

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Field	53W53 2007 · Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2007	1980
Place	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Manhattan, Manhattan, United States	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	7°C · 13.5h daylight · 19 km/h wind	8°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Museum	9 works in corpus
Architects	Jean Nouvel	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Ateliers Jean Nouvel	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	museum	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	glass concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	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.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.