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1999 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Montevideo (Rotterdam) image

43-storey, 139.5 m (458 ft) residential skyscraper in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Montevideo (Rotterdam)

Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands · Exact work coordinates

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43-storey, 139.5 m (458 ft) residential skyscraper in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Field	Montevideo (Rotterdam) 1999 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Michael Graves Architecture & Design 1964 · Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999	1964
Place	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Place context	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Representative site: Minneapolis, Minneapolis, United States
Climate	8°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind	7°C · 13.7h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Minneapolis Institute of Art
Focus	Housing	15 works in corpus
Architects	Francine Houben	Michael Graves
Linked context	Bureaus Mecanoo	Notable works Minneapolis Institute of Art Detroit Institute of Arts Michael C. Carlos Museum Louwman Museum
Typologies	housing tower office	museum library education campus building house office performance venue hospitality
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber stone
Carbon signals	housing, tower, and office gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	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.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	9 of 9 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.