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1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States

Mesa Laboratory image

Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Mesa Laboratory

Boulder, Boulder, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Field	Mesa Laboratory 1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1961	1952
Place	Boulder, Boulder, United States	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Boulder, Boulder, United States	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	24°C · 13.5h daylight · 16 km/h wind	28°C · 12.7h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Architecture	2 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	building	tower housing
Materials	concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.