| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 2003 | 1995 |
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| Place | Muromachi, Muromachi, Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
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| Place context | Muromachi, Muromachi, Japan | Representative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan |
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| Climate | 15°C · 13.2h daylight · 10 km/h wind | 16°C · 13.4h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station |
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| Focus | Museum | 11 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | - Kazuyo Sejima
- Ryue Nishizawa
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| Linked context | Bureaus - Michael Graves Architecture & Design
| Notable works - Hitachi Station
- New Museum
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
- Towada Art Center
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| Typologies | - museum
- performance venue
- office
| - performance venue
- museum
- cultural building
- gallery
- university building
- learning center
- academic building
- landscape
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| Materials | Not recorded yet. | - glass
- aluminum
- steel
- concrete
- timber
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| Carbon signals | museum, performance venue, and office gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet. | Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | No levers surfaced yet. | - 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.
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| Accessibility | Publicly accessible | 10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | |
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