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Suzhou Museum in Suzhou, People's Republic of China

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Suzhou Museum

1960 · Suzhou, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

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Museum in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

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Suzhou Museum

Suzhou, Suzhou, People's Republic of China · Exact work coordinates

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Suzhou MuseumSuzhou Museum

1960 · Suzhou, Suzhou, People's Republic of China

Maki and AssociatesMaki and Associates

1965 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19601965
PlaceSuzhou, Suzhou, People's Republic of ChinaTokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place contextSuzhou, Suzhou, People's Republic of ChinaRepresentative site: Sendagaya, Sendagaya, Japan
Climate18°C · 13.1h daylight · 20 km/h wind18°C · 13.3h daylight · 6 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
  • temple
  • sacred space
  • pavilion
  • building
  • museum
  • performance venue
  • office
  • gallery
  • house
  • hospitality
  • tower
Materials

Not recorded yet.

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

museum, temple, sacred space, and pavilion gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

No dominant drivers yet.

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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