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1992 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Seed wave 45 image for the National Library of Argentina.

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National Library of Argentina

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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	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1992	1952
Place	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	21°C · 11.1h daylight · 16 km/h wind	29°C · 12.7h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	National library	2 works in corpus
Architects	Clorindo Testa	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Clorindo Testa	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	library civic building cultural building	tower housing
Materials	concrete glass	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass	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. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.