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1988 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Netherlands Architecture Institute image

Former cultural institute for architecture and urban development in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Netherlands Architecture Institute

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Former cultural institute for architecture and urban development in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Field	Netherlands Architecture Institute 1988 · Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	SEPRA 1936 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1988	1936
Place	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place context	Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands	Representative site: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Climate	10°C · 14.2h daylight · 12 km/h wind	23°C · 11.1h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Bank of London and South America building
Focus	Museum	1 works in corpus
Architects	Jo Coenen	Clorindo Testa
Linked context	Bureaus Jo Coenen Architects & Urbanists	Notable works Bank of London and South America building
Typologies	museum library	office building bank commercial building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass
Carbon signals	museum and library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.