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Westmount Square in Westmount, Canada

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Westmount Square

1967 · Westmount, Westmount, Canada

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Residential and office complex in Westmount, Quebec

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Westmount Square

Westmount, Westmount, Canada · Exact work coordinates

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Westmount SquareWestmount Square

1967 · Westmount, Westmount, Canada

Herbert BakerHerbert Baker

1892 · London, England, United Kingdom

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19671892
PlaceWestmount, Westmount, CanadaLondon, England, United Kingdom
Place contextWestmount, Westmount, CanadaRepresentative site: Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Climate2°C · 13.8h daylight · 15 km/h wind15°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind · via Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
FocusHousing43 works in corpus
Architects
  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Herbert Baker
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Mies van der Rohe

Notable works

  • Houses of Parliament, Cape Town
  • St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town
  • State House, Nairobi
  • St Boniface Church, Germiston
Typologies
  • housing
  • tower
  • office
  • housing
  • house
  • office
  • civic building
  • church
  • sacred space
  • cathedral
  • chapel
Materials
  • timber
  • timber
  • brick
  • stone
Carbon signals

The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter.

No dominant drivers yet.

Brick and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded14 of 14 recorded works are publicly accessible
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