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Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal
Casa da Musica

2005 · Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Seed wave 47 image for Casa da Musica.

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Casa da Musica

Porto, Porto, Portugal · Exact work coordinates

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Casa da MusicaCasa da Musica

2005 · Porto, Porto, Portugal

Michael Graves Architecture & DesignMichael Graves Architecture & Design

1964 · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20051964
PlacePorto, Porto, PortugalPrinceton, New Jersey, United States
Place contextPorto, Porto, PortugalRepresentative site: Minneapolis, Minneapolis, United States
Climate16°C · 13.5h daylight · 5 km/h wind-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Minneapolis Institute of Art
FocusConcert hall15 works in corpus
Architects
  • Rem Koolhaas
  • Michael Graves
Linked context

Bureaus

  • OMA

Notable works

  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Michael C. Carlos Museum
  • Louwman Museum
Typologies
  • concert hall
  • cultural building
  • music venue
  • museum
  • library
  • education
  • campus building
  • house
  • office
  • performance venue
  • hospitality
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • stone
  • timber
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Stone

Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible9 of 9 recorded works are publicly accessible
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