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1939 · Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan

Onagawa Station image

Railway station in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

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Onagawa Station

Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Railway station in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

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Field	Onagawa Station 1939 · Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan	Gunnar Birkerts 1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1939	1950-2017
Place	Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place context	Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan	Representative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate	12°C · 13.4h daylight · 7 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.6h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
Focus	Performance venue	5 works in corpus
Architects	Shigeru Ban	Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context	Bureaus Shigeru Ban Architects	Notable works 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative Domino's Farms National Library of Latvia Domino's
Typologies	performance venue	housing performance venue landscape education campus building house tower library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass steel
Carbon signals	performance venue 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.