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2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art exterior view

Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

Credit: Kanazawa City

Rights: CC BY 2.1 JP · licensed

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Field	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan	Luis Barragan 1945 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1945
Place	Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place context	Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan	Representative site: Tacubaya, Tacubaya, Mexico
Climate	14°C · 13.3h daylight · 4 km/h wind	21°C · 12.7h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Luis Barragán House and Studio
Focus	Museum	1 works in corpus
Architects	Kazuyo Sejima Ryue Nishizawa	Luis Barragan
Linked context	Bureaus SANAA	Notable works Luis Barragán House and Studio
Typologies	museum cultural building	museum house
Materials	glass aluminum steel	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Aluminum, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Aluminum Steel Glass	museum and house 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	Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices. 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	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa	No linked books yet.