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1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) image

Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

New Canaan, New Canaan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Field	Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) 1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1850
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	3°C · 13.6h daylight · 8 km/h wind	7°C · 14.1h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Museum	5 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	museum house	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	glass	stone
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	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	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.