| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 1921 | Unrecorded |
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| Place | Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, India | Zürich, Switzerland |
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| Place context | Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Ward No. 63, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, India | Representative site: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
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| Climate | 31°C · 12.8h daylight · 14 km/h wind | 24°C · 13.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Tenerife Espacio de las Artes |
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| Focus | Museum | 6 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | - Herzog & de Meuron
- Jacques Herzog
- Pierre de Meuron
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
- Tate Modern
- Beirut Terraces
- Elbphilharmonie
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| Typologies | | - house
- performance venue
- museum
- adaptive reuse
- cultural building
- housing
- residential tower
- high-rise
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| Materials | | - brick
- steel
- glass
- concrete
- stone
- wood
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| Carbon signals | Stone 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 | - Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
| - 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 | Publicly accessible | 3 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | No linked books yet. |
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