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Boa Nova Tea House

1958-1963 · Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

12°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind

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Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

Climate: 12°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind

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Boa Nova Tea House

1958-1963 · Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

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Seoul, South Korea

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1958-1963Unrecorded
PlaceMatosinhos, Porto District, PortugalSeoul, South Korea
Place contextMatosinhos, Porto District, PortugalRepresentative site: Chicago, Chicago, United States
Climate12°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind9°C · 13.5h daylight · 23 km/h wind · via 333 Wacker Drive
FocusTea house and restaurant104 works in corpus
Architects
  • Alvaro Siza
  • Kohn Pedersen Fox
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Álvaro Siza Vieira

Notable works

  • 333 Wacker Drive
  • One Logan Square
  • One Tabor Center
  • Fifth Third Center (Nashville)
Typologies
  • hospitality
  • coastal building
  • restaurant
  • office
  • building
  • tower
  • landscape
  • church
  • sacred space
  • civic building
  • hospitality
Materials
  • concrete
  • wood
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • concrete
  • stone
  • glass
  • steel
  • brick
  • bamboo
Carbon signals

Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • 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.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible31 of 31 recorded works are publicly accessible
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