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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

New Canaan, New Canaan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Dominique Perrault ArchitectureDominique Perrault Architecture

Albi, Midi-Pyrénées, France

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1949Unrecorded
PlaceNew Canaan, New Canaan, United StatesAlbi, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Place contextNew Canaan, New Canaan, United StatesRepresentative site: 16th arrondissement of Paris, 16th arrondissement of Paris, France
Climate2°C · 13.6h daylight · 7 km/h wind7°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Longchamp Racecourse
FocusMuseum12 works in corpus
Architects
  • Philip Johnson
  • Dominique Perrault
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Philip Johnson

Notable works

  • Longchamp Racecourse
  • Tour Landscape
  • Telekom Center Athens
  • Velodrom (Berlin)
Typologies
  • museum
  • house
  • building
  • tower
  • office
  • hospitality
  • sports venue
  • landscape
  • infrastructure
  • cultural
Materials
  • glass
  • glass
  • steel
  • concrete
Carbon signals

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

  • Glass

Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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