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National Museum of Western Art in Ueno-kōen, Japan

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National Museum of Western Art

1959 · Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan

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Art museum in Tokyo, Japan

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National Museum of Western Art

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National Museum of Western ArtNational Museum of Western Art

1959 · Ueno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, Japan

Marcel Breuer AssociatesMarcel Breuer Associates

1951 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19591951
PlaceUeno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, JapanNew York, New York, United States
Place contextUeno-kōen, Ueno-kōen, JapanRepresentative site: Collegeville, Collegeville, United States
Climate23°C · 13.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville
FocusMuseum21 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kunio Maekawa
  • Marcel Breuer
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Mayekawa Associates

Notable works

  • Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Alan I W Frank House
  • Marcel Breuer House II
Typologies
  • museum
  • gallery
  • landscape
  • building
  • museum
  • education
  • campus building
  • house
  • housing
  • landscape
  • chapel
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • stone
  • timber
  • concrete
  • brick
  • glass
  • steel
Carbon signals

museum, gallery, and landscape 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 Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible9 of 9 recorded works are publicly accessible
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