| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 2014 | 1947-1974 |
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| Place | Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Place context | Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon | Representative site: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States |
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| Climate | 16°C · 13.2h daylight · 18 km/h wind | 7°C · 13.5h daylight · 2 km/h wind · via University of Pennsylvania |
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| Focus | University policy institute | 12 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | |
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - University of Pennsylvania
- Salk Institute
- Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
- Yale Center for British Art
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| Typologies | - academic building
- research institute
- cultural building
| - education
- campus building
- institutional building
- research campus
- laboratory
- parliament
- civic building
- government building
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| Materials | | - concrete
- teak
- travertine
- marble
- aluminum
- brick
- steel
- timber
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| Carbon signals | Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. | Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | - 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.
- Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
| - 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.
- Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
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| Accessibility | Publicly accessible | 8 of 8 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | |
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