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1966 · California, California, United States

Fairmont Century Plaza image

Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, California

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Fairmont Century Plaza

California, California, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, California

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Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	Fairmont Century Plaza 1966 · California, California, United States	Hassan Fathy 1930-1989 · Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1966	1930-1989
Place	California, California, United States	Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Place context	California, California, United States	Representative site: Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Climate	17°C · 13.2h daylight · 12 km/h wind	24°C · 12.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via New Gourna
Focus	Performance venue	1 works in corpus
Architects	Minoru Yamasaki	Hassan Fathy
Linked context	Bureaus Yamasaki & Associates	Notable works New Gourna
Typologies	performance venue tower hospitality	housing settlement village masterplan
Materials	Not recorded yet.	adobe mud brick earth
Carbon signals	performance venue, tower, and hospitality gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.