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Louvre in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France

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Louvre

1793 · Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France

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Art museum in Paris, France

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1793 · Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, France

Maki and AssociatesMaki and Associates

1965 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years17931965
PlaceSaint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, FranceTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextSaint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, FranceRepresentative site: Sendagaya, Sendagaya, Japan
Climate14°C · 13.9h daylight · 9 km/h wind11°C · 13.3h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
FocusMuseum15 works in corpus
Architects
  • I. M. Pei
  • Fumihiko Maki
Linked context

Bureaus

  • I. M. Pei & Partners

Notable works

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
  • Japanese Sword Museum
  • Iwasaki Art Museum
Typologies
  • museum
  • building
  • museum
  • performance venue
  • office
  • gallery
  • house
  • hospitality
  • tower
Materials

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  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • granite
  • rammed earth
  • stone
  • earth
Carbon signals

museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Earth
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • 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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
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