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Bureaus

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

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1887 · Boston, Boston, United States

Boston Central Library image

Library building in Boston, Massachusetts

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Boston Central Library

Boston, Boston, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Library building in Boston, Massachusetts

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Comparison

Field	Boston Central Library 1887 · Boston, Boston, United States	José Marques da Silva 1896 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1887	1896
Place	Boston, Boston, United States	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Boston, Boston, United States	Representative site: Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, Portugal
Climate	4°C · 13.6h daylight · 17 km/h wind	11°C · 13.5h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Serralves
Focus	Architecture	4 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Jose Marques da Silva
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Serralves Casa Correia de Matos São Bento railway station São João National Theatre
Typologies	library	museum landscape house building performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	museum, landscape, house, and building 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	No levers surfaced yet.	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.