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2004 · Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-Freimann, Germany

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Twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany

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Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-Freimann, Germany · Exact work coordinates

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Twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany

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Field	Highlight Towers 2004 · Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-Freimann, Germany	Lucio Costa 1930 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1930
Place	Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-Freimann, Germany	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place context	Schwabing-Freimann, Schwabing-Freimann, Germany	Representative site: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Climate	6°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind	25°C · 11.4h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Vila Operária da Gamboa
Focus	Office building	2 works in corpus
Architects	Helmut Jahn	Lucio Costa
Linked context	Bureaus Murphy/Jahn	Notable works Vila Operária da Gamboa Brasília TV Tower
Typologies	tower hospitality office	building museum tower landscape
Materials	glass steel	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Glass	building, museum, tower, and landscape gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.