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1988 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Netherlands Architecture Institute image

Former cultural institute for architecture and urban development in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Netherlands Architecture Institute

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Former cultural institute for architecture and urban development in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Field	Netherlands Architecture Institute 1988 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Kenzo Tange Associates 1946 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1988	1946
Place	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Representative site: Minneapolis, Minneapolis, United States
Climate	10°C · 14.2h daylight · 8 km/h wind	0°C · 13.8h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Minneapolis Institute of Art
Focus	Museum	28 works in corpus
Architects	Jo Coenen	Kenzo Tange
Linked context	Bureaus Jo Coenen Architects & Urbanists	Notable works Minneapolis Institute of Art Assumption of Mary Cathedral, Hiroshima Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Typologies	museum library	museum church sacred space cathedral memorial hospitality landscape sports venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
Carbon signals	museum and 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.