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1993 · 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France

Carrousel du Louvre image

Shopping mall in Paris, France

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Carrousel du Louvre

1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France · Exact work coordinates

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Shopping mall in Paris, France

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Field	Carrousel du Louvre 1993 · 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1993	1960
Place	1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	8°C · 14.1h daylight · 11 km/h wind	4°C · 14.4h daylight · 14 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Museum	4 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	museum	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
Carbon signals	museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.