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1977 · Michigan City, Michigan City, United States

Michigan City Public Library image

Public Library in Indiana, United States

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Michigan City Public Library

Michigan City, Michigan City, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Public Library in Indiana, United States

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Comparison

Field	Michigan City Public Library 1977 · Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Gunnar Birkerts 1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1977	1950-2017
Place	Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place context	Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Representative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate	22°C · 13.6h daylight · 26 km/h wind	17°C · 13.7h daylight · 24 km/h wind · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
Focus	Architecture	5 works in corpus
Architects	Helmut Jahn	Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context	Bureaus Murphy/Jahn	Notable works 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative Domino's Farms National Library of Latvia Domino's
Typologies	library	housing performance venue landscape education campus building house tower library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass steel
Carbon signals	library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.