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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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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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Field	Tour Granite 2008 · Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Robin Boyd 1947-1971 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2008	1947-1971
Place	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Place context	Nanterre, Nanterre, France	Representative site: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Climate	12°C · 14.0h daylight · 13 km/h wind	11°C · 10.9h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Walsh Street House
Focus	Office building	2 works in corpus
Architects	Christian de Portzamparc	Robin Boyd
Linked context	Bureaus Christian de Portzamparc	Notable works Walsh Street House Featherston House
Typologies	office	house residential modernism
Materials	stone	brick glass timber
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Brick and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	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. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	0 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.