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1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) image

Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

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

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Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Field	Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) 1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1950-2000 · Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1950-2000
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Climate	6°C · 13.5h daylight · 4 km/h wind	11°C · 14.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Hundertwasserhaus
Focus	Museum	5 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Hundertwasserhaus KunstHausWien Waldspirale Hundertwasser Toilets
Typologies	museum house	house museum adaptive reuse cultural building housing building tower
Materials	glass	brick plaster ceramic tile
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Brick, Ceramic Tile, and Plaster look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Ceramic Tile Plaster
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.