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Tour Granite in Nanterre, France
Tour Granite

2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

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Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Tour Granite

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Tour Granite

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Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Tour GraniteTour Granite

2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

ELEMENTAL

Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2008Unrecorded
PlaceNanterre, Nanterre, FranceIquique, Tarapacá, Chile
Place contextNanterre, Nanterre, FranceRepresentative site: Iquique, Tarapaca Region, Chile
Climate14°C · 14.0h daylight · 15 km/h wind22°C · 11.5h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Quinta Monroy
FocusOffice building3 works in corpus
Architects
  • Christian de Portzamparc
  • Alejandro Aravena
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Christian de Portzamparc

Notable works

  • Quinta Monroy
  • Quinta Monroy / ELEMENTAL
  • Monterrey Housing
Typologies
  • office
  • housing
  • social housing
  • residential
  • pritzker prize
  • top100
  • dabas
  • 3d modeling
Materials
  • stone
  • concrete
  • masonry
Carbon signals

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

  • Stone

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

  • Concrete
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
AccessibilityAccess not recordedAccess not recorded across linked works
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