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Bureaus

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

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2001 · Venice, Venice, United States

Binoculars Building image

Office building in Los Angeles, California

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Binoculars Building

Venice, Venice, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Office building in Los Angeles, California

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Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	Binoculars Building 2001 · Venice, Venice, United States	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1980
Place	Venice, Venice, United States	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Venice, Venice, United States	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	12°C · 13.2h daylight · 9 km/h wind	16°C · 14.0h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Architecture	9 works in corpus
Architects	Frank Gehry	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Gehry Partners	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	campus building	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone
Carbon signals	campus building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.