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2001 · Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan

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Library in Sendai, Japan

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Sendai Mediatheque

Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Library in Sendai, Japan

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Field	Sendai Mediatheque 2001 · Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan	Olson Kundig San Juan Island, San Juan Islands, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2001	Unrecorded
Place	Aoba-ku, Aoba-ku, Japan	San Juan Island, San Juan Islands, United States
Place context	青葉区, 仙台市, 日本	Representative site: San Juan Island, San Juan Islands, United States
Climate	14°C · 13.4h daylight · 14 km/h wind	Climate unavailable · via Rolling Huts
Focus	Architecture	2 works in corpus
Architects	Toyo Ito	Olson Kundig
Linked context	Bureaus Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects	Notable works Rolling Huts The Pierre
Typologies	library	hospitality lodging cabins lodges wood top100 residential houses san juan
Materials	Not recorded yet.	wood steel concrete
Carbon signals	library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Steel
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.