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1991 · California, California, United States

One America Plaza image

Office skyscraper in San Diego, California

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One America Plaza

California, California, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Office skyscraper in San Diego, California

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Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	One America Plaza 1991 · California, California, United States	Joseph Paxton
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1991	Unrecorded
Place	California, California, United States	Unrecorded
Place context	California, California, United States	Representative site: Chatsworth, Chatsworth, United Kingdom
Climate	16°C · 13.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind	11°C · 14.3h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Emperor Fountain
Focus	Architecture	6 works in corpus
Architects	Helmut Jahn	Joseph Paxton
Linked context	Bureaus Murphy/Jahn	Notable works Emperor Fountain The Crystal Palace Château de Ferrières Château de Pregny
Typologies	tower	house cathedral sacred space landscape education campus building building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass timber
Carbon signals	tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.