| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 1949 | 1949 |
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| Place | New Canaan, New Canaan, United States | New York, New York, United States |
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| Place context | New Canaan, New Canaan, United States | Representative site: Boston, Boston, United States |
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| Climate | 2°C · 13.6h daylight · 6 km/h wind | 1°C · 13.6h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Boston Central Library |
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| Focus | Museum | 42 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | |
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| Linked context | Bureaus | Notable works - Boston Central Library
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
- Glass House (New Canaan, Connecticut)
- Rockefeller Guest House
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| Typologies | | - library
- museum
- education
- house
- landscape
- performance venue
- gallery
- campus building
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| Materials | | |
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| Carbon signals | Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. | Concrete, Steel, and Brick look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | - Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
| - 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.
- Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
- Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
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| Accessibility | Publicly accessible | 21 of 21 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | No linked books yet. |
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