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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

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Exterior view of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.

Credit: Kanazawa City

Rights: CC BY 2.1 JP · licensed

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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2004 · Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

SANAASANAA

1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20041995
PlaceKanazawa, Ishikawa, JapanTokyo, Japan
Place contextKanazawa, Ishikawa, JapanRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate18°C · 13.3h daylight · 1 km/h wind15°C · 13.3h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusMuseum11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • SANAA

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

Aluminum, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Steel
  • Glass

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • 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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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