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1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

Bureaus

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

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The selected works stay in sync by slot, while the pins map where they sit inside the mixed set.

Toronto Reference Library in Toronto, Canada

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Toronto Reference Library

1977 · Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Toronto Reference Library image

Largest branch of Toronto Public Library

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Toronto Reference Library

Toronto, Toronto, Canada · Exact work coordinates

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Toronto Reference LibraryToronto Reference Library

1977 · Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19771995
PlaceToronto, Toronto, CanadaTokyo, Japan
Place contextToronto, Toronto, CanadaRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate10°C · 13.6h daylight · 8 km/h wind12°C · 13.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusArchitecture11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Raymond Moriyama
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Moriyama Teshima Architects

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • library
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

library 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.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
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.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books

No linked books yet.