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Bureaus

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Unknown · San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

San Francisco Federal Building image

Government offices in San Francisco, California

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San Francisco Federal Building

San Francisco, San Francisco, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Government offices in San Francisco, California

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Comparison

Field	San Francisco Federal Building Unknown · San Francisco, San Francisco, United States	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	Unknown	1964
Place	San Francisco, San Francisco, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	San Francisco, San Francisco, United States	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	15°C · 13.4h daylight · 15 km/h wind	9°C · 13.8h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Architecture	3 works in corpus
Architects	Thom Mayne	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Morphosis	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	building	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	concrete timber	timber
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.