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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

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

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Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)

1949 · New Canaan, New Canaan, United States

Moriyama Teshima ArchitectsMoriyama Teshima Architects

1958 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19491958
PlaceNew Canaan, New Canaan, United StatesToronto, Ontario, Canada
Place contextNew Canaan, New Canaan, United StatesRepresentative site: Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Climate6°C · 13.5h daylight · 15 km/h wind7°C · 13.7h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Canadian War Museum
FocusMuseum8 works in corpus
Architects
  • Philip Johnson
  • Raymond Moriyama
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Philip Johnson

Notable works

  • Canadian War Museum
  • Ontario Science Centre
  • William G. Davis Building
  • Toronto Reference Library
Typologies
  • museum
  • house
  • museum
  • library
  • house
  • performance venue
  • education
  • campus building
  • hospitality
  • office
Materials
  • glass
  • glass
Carbon signals

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

  • Glass

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

  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
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