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1968 · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Richard King Mellon Hall image

Building at Duquesne University, Pennsylvania

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Richard King Mellon Hall

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Building at Duquesne University, Pennsylvania

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Comparison

Field	Richard King Mellon Hall 1968 · Chicago, Illinois, United States	Gunnar Birkerts 1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1968	1950-2017
Place	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place context	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Representative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate	3°C · 13.5h daylight · 15 km/h wind	0°C · 13.6h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
Focus	Education building	5 works in corpus
Architects	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe	Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context	Bureaus Mies van der Rohe	Notable works 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative Domino's Farms National Library of Latvia Domino's
Typologies	education campus building	housing performance venue landscape education campus building house tower library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass steel
Carbon signals	education and campus building 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.