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1968 · St. Louis, St. Louis, United States

Gateway Arch image

US National Historic Landmark in St. Louis, Missouri

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Gateway Arch

St. Louis, St. Louis, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

US National Historic Landmark in St. Louis, Missouri

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Comparison

Field	Gateway Arch 1968 · St. Louis, St. Louis, United States	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1968	1960
Place	St. Louis, St. Louis, United States	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	St. Louis, St. Louis, United States	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	27°C · 13.5h daylight · 25 km/h wind	9°C · 14.4h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Landscape project	4 works in corpus
Architects	Eero Saarinen	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus Eero Saarinen and Associates	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	landscape	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	steel	concrete timber
Carbon signals	Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.	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.