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2001 · Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan

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Library in Sendai, Japan

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Sendai Mediatheque

Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Library in Sendai, Japan

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Comparison

Field	Sendai Mediatheque 2001 · Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan	Christian de Portzamparc 1980 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	1980
Place	Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan	Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Place context	Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan	Representative site: Nanterre, Nanterre, France
Climate	16°C · 13.4h daylight · 10 km/h wind	8°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Tour Granite
Focus	Architecture	9 works in corpus
Architects	Toyo Ito	Christian de Portzamparc
Linked context	Bureaus Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects	Notable works Tour Granite Musée Hergé Cidade das Artes Paris La Défense Arena
Typologies	library	office museum building tower hospitality landscape house library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone
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.	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	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.