| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 1987-1993 | 1980 |
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| Place | Porto, Porto District, Portugal | Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
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| Place context | Porto, Porto District, Portugal | Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France |
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| Climate | 11°C · 13.5h daylight · 1 km/h wind | 9°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Tour Granite |
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| Focus | Architecture school | 9 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | |
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Tour Granite
- Musée Hergé
- Cidade das Artes
- Paris La Défense Arena
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| Typologies | - education
- school
- campus building
| - office
- museum
- building
- tower
- hospitality
- landscape
- house
- library
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| Materials | | |
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| Carbon signals | Concrete, Glass, and Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. | Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| 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.
- Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
| - Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
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| Accessibility | Publicly accessible | 3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | | No linked books yet. |
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