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1984 · Alberta, Alberta, Canada

Telus World of Science Edmonton image

Science centre in Alberta, Canada

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Telus World of Science Edmonton

Alberta, Alberta, Canada · Exact work coordinates

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Science centre in Alberta, Canada

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Field	Telus World of Science Edmonton 1984 · Alberta, Alberta, Canada	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1984	1980
Place	Alberta, Alberta, Canada	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Alberta, Alberta, Canada	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	15°C · 14.3h daylight · 16 km/h wind	11°C · 13.6h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	House	3 works in corpus
Architects	Douglas Cardinal	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Douglas Cardinal Architect	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	house performance venue landscape	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	timber	concrete
Carbon signals	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.