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Hero image

1964 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

The Century Towers image

Building in California, United States

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The Century Towers

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Building in California, United States

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Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	The Century Towers 1964 · Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States	Moriyama Teshima Architects 1958 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1964	1958
Place	Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Avenue of the Stars, Pico-Robertson, Los Angeles, California, United States	Representative site: Vimy Place, LeBreton Flats, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Climate	17°C · 13.3h daylight · 10 km/h wind	9°C · 13.8h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Canadian War Museum
Focus	Housing	8 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Raymond Moriyama
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Canadian War Museum Ontario Science Centre William G. Davis Building Toronto Reference Library
Typologies	housing tower	museum library house performance venue education campus building hospitality office
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass
Carbon signals	housing and tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.