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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	Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1810 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1810
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Climate	6°C · 13.5h daylight · 15 km/h wind	11°C · 14.1h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Cologne Cathedral
Focus	Museum	32 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Cologne Cathedral Marienkirche, Frankfurt (Oder) Chorin Abbey Stolzenfels Castle
Typologies	museum house	church sacred space cathedral building museum landscape education campus building
Materials	glass	brick plaster
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Brick and Plaster look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Plaster
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	19 of 19 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.