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Markham Civic Centre in Markham, Canada
Markham Civic Centre

1990 · Markham, Markham, Canada

Markham Civic Centre image

City hall in Ontario, Canada

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Markham Civic Centre

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Markham Civic CentreMarkham Civic Centre

1990 · Markham, Markham, Canada

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1990Unrecorded
PlaceMarkham, Markham, CanadaDoha, Qatar
Place contextMarkham, Markham, CanadaRepresentative site: St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
Climate10°C · 13.8h daylight · 23 km/h wind24°C · 13.5h daylight · 21 km/h wind · via Saint Louis Art Museum
FocusCivic building13 works in corpus
Architects
  • Arthur Erickson
  • David Chipperfield
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Arthur Erickson Architects

Notable works

  • Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Foundation E. G. Bührle
  • 1 Cobham Mews Studios
  • Ciutat de la Justícia de Barcelona i l'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Typologies
  • civic building
  • landscape
  • museum
  • landscape
  • office
  • building
  • house
  • gallery
  • hospitality
  • hotels
Materials
  • brick
  • glass
  • stone
  • glass
Carbon signals

Brick and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • Glass

Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • 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.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
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