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Exterior view of the Nezu Museum, showing the low eaves and bamboo-lined approach in Tokyo.
Nezu Museum

2009 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Nezu Museum exterior view

Exterior view of the Nezu Museum in Tokyo.

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Nezu Museum

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Nezu MuseumNezu Museum

2009 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2009Unrecorded
PlaceTokyo, Tokyo, JapanDoha, Qatar
Place contextTokyo, Tokyo, JapanRepresentative site: St. Louis, St. Louis, United States
Climate17°C · 13.3h daylight · 8 km/h wind7°C · 13.4h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Saint Louis Art Museum
FocusMuseum13 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kengo Kuma
  • David Chipperfield
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Kengo Kuma & Associates

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
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • landscape
  • museum
  • landscape
  • office
  • building
  • house
  • gallery
  • hospitality
  • hotels
Materials
  • bamboo
  • wood
  • glass
  • stone
  • glass
Carbon signals

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

  • Bamboo
  • Glass

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

  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
  • 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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