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Hero image

1964 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

The Century Towers image

Building in California, United States

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The Century Towers

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Building in California, United States

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Comparison

Field	The Century Towers 1964 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States	Hiroshi Naito Architect & Associates 1981 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1964	1981
Place	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States	Representative site: Asahikawa, Asahikawa, Japan
Climate	22°C · 13.2h daylight · 17 km/h wind	7°C · 13.7h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via Asahikawa Station
Focus	Housing	7 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Hiroshi Naito
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Asahikawa Station Takayama Station Makino Botanical Garden Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki
Typologies	housing tower	performance venue landscape museum memorial
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber
Carbon signals	housing and tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.