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1977 · Michigan City, Michigan City, United States

Michigan City Public Library image

Public Library in Indiana, United States

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Michigan City Public Library

Michigan City, Michigan City, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Public Library in Indiana, United States

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Field	Michigan City Public Library 1977 · Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Kenzo Tange Associates 1946 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1977	1946
Place	Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Michigan City, Michigan City, United States	Representative site: Minneapolis, Minneapolis, United States
Climate	5°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind	4°C · 13.7h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Minneapolis Institute of Art
Focus	Architecture	28 works in corpus
Architects	Helmut Jahn	Kenzo Tange
Linked context	Bureaus Murphy/Jahn	Notable works Minneapolis Institute of Art Assumption of Mary Cathedral, Hiroshima Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Typologies	library	museum church sacred space cathedral memorial hospitality landscape sports venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
Carbon signals	library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	13 of 13 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.