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Australia Square in Sydney, Australia
Australia Square

1964 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Australia Square

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Australia SquareAustralia Square

1964 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Herzog & de MeuronHerzog & de Meuron

Zürich, Switzerland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1964Unrecorded
PlaceSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaZürich, Switzerland
Place contextSydney, New South Wales, AustraliaRepresentative site: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Climate20°C · 11.1h daylight · 17 km/h wind18°C · 13.0h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
FocusOffice building6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Harry Seidler
  • Herzog & de Meuron
  • Jacques Herzog
  • Pierre de Meuron
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Harry Seidler & Associates

Notable works

  • Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
  • Tate Modern
  • Beirut Terraces
  • Elbphilharmonie
Typologies
  • tower
  • office
  • mixed-use
  • house
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • adaptive reuse
  • cultural building
  • housing
  • residential tower
  • high-rise
Materials
  • concrete
  • steel
  • glass
  • brick
  • steel
  • glass
  • concrete
  • stone
  • wood
Carbon signals

Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass

Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityAccess not recorded3 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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