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1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) image

Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

New Canaan, New Canaan, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Historic house in Connecticut, US

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Field	Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut) 1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Mario Pani Arquitecto 1934 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1949	1934
Place	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place context	New Canaan, New Canaan, United States	Representative site: Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Climate	6°C · 13.5h daylight · 4 km/h wind	15°C · 12.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City
Focus	Museum	3 works in corpus
Architects	Philip Johnson	Mario Pani
Linked context	Bureaus Philip Johnson	Notable works Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City Torre Insignia Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco Tlatelolco
Typologies	museum house	museum library education campus building housing house tower landscape
Materials	glass	concrete
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.