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1992 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

National Library of Argentina image

Seed wave 45 image for the National Library of Argentina.

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National Library of Argentina

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 45 image for the National Library of Argentina.

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Field	National Library of Argentina 1992 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Jo Coenen Architects & Urbanists 1987 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1992	1987
Place	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Representative site: Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate	20°C · 11.1h daylight · 8 km/h wind	7°C · 14.3h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via DeLaMar
Focus	National library	3 works in corpus
Architects	Clorindo Testa	Jo Coenen
Linked context	Bureaus Clorindo Testa	Notable works DeLaMar Netherlands Architecture Institute Vesteda Toren
Typologies	library civic building cultural building	performance venue museum library tower
Materials	concrete glass	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	performance venue, museum, library, and tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.