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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

2017 · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

15°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind

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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa · City-level coordinates only

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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

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Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Climate: 15°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind

Mapping: City-level coordinates only

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Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art AfricaZeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

2017 · Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Marcel Breuer AssociatesMarcel Breuer Associates

1951 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20171951
PlaceCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaNew York, New York, United States
Place contextCape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaRepresentative site: Collegeville, Collegeville, United States
Climate15°C · 11.1h daylight · 22 km/h wind-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville
FocusMuseum21 works in corpus
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  • Marcel Breuer
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Notable works

  • Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Alan I W Frank House
  • Marcel Breuer House II
Typologies
  • museum
  • contemporary art museum
  • adaptive reuse
  • building
  • museum
  • education
  • campus building
  • house
  • housing
  • landscape
  • chapel
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • stone
  • timber
  • concrete
  • brick
  • glass
  • steel
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
Lower-carbon levers
  • 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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • 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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