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Bureaus

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2004 · Seattle, Seattle, United States

Seattle Central Library image

Public Library in Seattle, Washington

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Seattle Central Library

Seattle, Seattle, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Public Library in Seattle, Washington

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Comparison

Field	Seattle Central Library 2004 · Seattle, Seattle, United States	Mayekawa Associates 1935 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2004	1935
Place	Seattle, Seattle, United States	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Seattle, Seattle, United States	Representative site: Neustadt-Süd, Neustadt-Süd, Germany
Climate	15°C · 14.0h daylight · 9 km/h wind	11°C · 14.3h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne)
Focus	Architecture	16 works in corpus
Architects	Rem Koolhaas	Kunio Maekawa
Linked context	Bureaus OMA	Notable works Museum of East Asian Art (Cologne) Saitama Museum of Natural History Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Typologies	library	museum gallery landscape house performance venue
Materials	glass steel	Not recorded yet.
Carbon signals	Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Glass	museum, gallery, landscape, and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	15 of 15 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.