| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 1955 | 1978 |
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| Place | Cambridge, Cambridge, United States | Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland |
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| Place context | Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | Representative site: Bankside, Southwark, Greater London, England, United Kingdom |
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| Climate | 13°C · 13.2h daylight · 23 km/h wind | 13°C · 13.6h daylight · 23 km/h wind · via Tate Modern |
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| Focus | Sacred building | 2 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | - Jacques Herzog
- Pierre de Meuron
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| Linked context | Bureaus - Eero Saarinen and Associates
| Notable works - Tate Modern
- Elbphilharmonie
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| Typologies | - campus building
- chapel
- sacred space
- infrastructure
| - museum
- adaptive reuse
- cultural building
- concert hall
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| Materials | Not recorded yet. | |
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| Carbon signals | campus building, chapel, sacred space, and infrastructure gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet. | Steel, Brick, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | No levers surfaced yet. | - 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 | Publicly accessible | 2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | No linked books yet. |
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