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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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Nanterre, Nanterre, France · Exact work coordinates

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

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Field	Tour Granite 2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Enric Miralles 1984-2000 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1984-2000
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Igualada, Catalonia, Spain
Climate	11°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	13°C · 13.7h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Igualada Cemetery
Focus	Office building	3 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	Enric Miralles
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Igualada Cemetery Pabellón Pedro Ferrándiz Camp Olímpic de Tir amb Arc
Typologies	office	cemetery landscape architecture civic infrastructure building
Materials	stone	concrete earth stone
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Concrete, Earth, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Earth Stone
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. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.