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1979 · New Harmony, New Harmony, United States

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New Harmony's Atheneum

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Field	New Harmony's Atheneum 1979 · New Harmony, New Harmony, United States	Gunnar Birkerts 1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1979	1950-2017
Place	New Harmony, New Harmony, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place context	New Harmony, New Harmony, United States	Representative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate	18°C · 13.4h daylight · 25 km/h wind	8°C · 13.6h daylight · 31 km/h wind · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
Focus	Sacred building	5 works in corpus
Architects	Richard Meier	Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context	Bureaus Richard Meier & Partners Architects	Notable works 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative Domino's Farms National Library of Latvia Domino's
Typologies	temple sacred space	housing performance venue landscape education campus building house tower library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass steel
Carbon signals	temple and sacred space 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	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.