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1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

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The Opus

2020 · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

شارع النسيم, مرسى دبي, دبي, الإمارات العربية المتحدة

25°C · 12.9h daylight · 1 km/h wind

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The Opus

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · City-level coordinates only

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The Opus

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شارع النسيم, مرسى دبي, دبي, الإمارات العربية المتحدة

Climate: 25°C · 12.9h daylight · 1 km/h wind

Mapping: City-level coordinates only

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The Opus

2020 · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Douglas Cardinal ArchitectDouglas Cardinal Architect

1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20201964
PlaceDubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Place contextشارع النسيم, مرسى دبي, دبي, الإمارات العربية المتحدةRepresentative site: Terrasse supérieure, Hull, Gatineau, Québec, Canada
Climate25°C · 12.9h daylight · 1 km/h wind3°C · 13.8h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
FocusMixed-use building3 works in corpus
Architects

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  • Douglas Cardinal
Linked context

Bureaus

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Notable works

  • Canadian Museum of History
  • Telus World of Science Edmonton
  • National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies
  • mixed-use
  • hotel
  • office building
  • museum
  • house
  • performance venue
  • landscape
Materials
  • glass
  • steel
  • timber
Carbon signals

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

  • Steel
  • Glass

The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter.

No dominant drivers yet.

Lower-carbon levers
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • 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.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books

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