| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | Unknown | 1978 |
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| Place | Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico | Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland |
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| Place context | Calle de Vázquez del Mercado, Barrio de la Estación, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México | Representative site: Bankside, Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Climate | 17°C · 12.6h daylight · 4 km/h wind | 10°C · 13.8h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Tate Modern |
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| Focus | House | 3 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | - Jacques Herzog
- Pierre de Meuron
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Tate Modern
- Beirut Terraces
- Elbphilharmonie
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| Typologies | | - museum
- adaptive reuse
- cultural building
- housing
- residential tower
- high-rise
- concert hall
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| Materials | | - brick
- steel
- glass
- concrete
- stone
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| Carbon signals | Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. | Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | - 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.
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| Accessibility | Access not recorded | 2 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | No linked books yet. |
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