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Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · Exact work coordinates

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Comparison

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Asakusa Culture Tourist Information CenterAsakusa Culture Tourist Information Center

2012 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

SANAASANAA

1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20121995
PlaceTokyo, Tokyo, JapanTokyo, Japan
Place contextTokyo, Tokyo, JapanRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate12°C · 13.3h daylight · 4 km/h wind13°C · 13.3h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusTourist information center11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kengo Kuma
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Kengo Kuma & Associates

Notable works

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

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

  • Steel
  • Glass

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

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • 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.
  • 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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