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Tour Granite in Nanterre, France
Tour Granite

2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

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

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Tour Granite

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

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Tour GraniteTour Granite

2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France

Richard Meier & Partners ArchitectsRichard Meier & Partners Architects

1963 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20081963
PlaceNanterre, Nanterre, FranceNew York, New York, United States
Place contextNanterre, Nanterre, FranceRepresentative site: Frankfurt-Süd, Frankfurt-Süd, Germany
Climate8°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind7°C · 14.2h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Museum Angewandte Kunst
FocusOffice building21 works in corpus
Architects
  • Christian de Portzamparc
  • Richard Meier
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Christian de Portzamparc

Notable works

  • Museum Angewandte Kunst
  • Des Moines Art Center
  • Frederick J. Smith House
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
Typologies
  • office
  • museum
  • house
  • campus building
  • performance venue
  • temple
  • sacred space
  • civic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • stone
  • adobe
  • glass
  • stone
Carbon signals

Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Stone

Adobe, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Adobe
  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
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