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Fairmont Century Plaza in California, United States

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Fairmont Century Plaza

1966 · California, California, United States

Fairmont Century Plaza image

Hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, California

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Fairmont Century Plaza

California, California, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Fairmont Century PlazaFairmont Century Plaza

1966 · California, California, United States

SnøhettaSnøhetta

1989 · Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19661989
PlaceCalifornia, California, United StatesOslo, Oslo, Norway
Place contextCalifornia, California, United StatesRepresentative site: Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt
Climate13°C · 13.2h daylight · 3 km/h wind21°C · 13.1h daylight · 18 km/h wind · via Bibliotheca Alexandrina
FocusPerformance venue3 works in corpus
Architects
  • Minoru Yamasaki
  • Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Yamasaki & Associates

Notable works

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  • Oslo Opera House
  • Sheldon & Tracy Levy Student Learning Centre
Typologies
  • performance venue
  • tower
  • hospitality
  • library
  • cultural center
  • civic building
  • performance venue
  • opera house
  • education
  • student center
  • campus building
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • granite
  • glass
  • concrete
  • marble
  • steel
Carbon signals

performance venue, tower, and hospitality gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

No dominant drivers yet.

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • 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.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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