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2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

Tour Granite image

Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Tour Granite

Nanterre, Nanterre, France · Exact work coordinates

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Office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district in Paris, France

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Comparison

Field	Tour Granite 2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Oscar Niemeyer 1940 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1940
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Milan, Milan, Italy
Climate	12°C · 14.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind	18°C · 13.8h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Mondadori
Focus	Office building	58 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	Oscar Niemeyer
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Mondadori Grande Hotel of Ouro Preto Casa do Baile Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha
Typologies	office	building hospitality church sacred space chapel landscape performance venue gallery
Materials	stone	concrete glass
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	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.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	24 of 24 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.