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1991 · California, California, United States

One America Plaza image

Office skyscraper in San Diego, California

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One America Plaza

California, California, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

Office skyscraper in San Diego, California

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Comparison

Field	One America Plaza 1991 · California, California, United States	Tadao Ando Architect & Associates 1969 · Osaka, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1991	1969
Place	California, California, United States	Osaka, Japan
Place context	California, California, United States	Representative site: Kai, Kai, Japan
Climate	22°C · 13.1h daylight · 13 km/h wind	14°C · 13.3h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Ryūō Station
Focus	Architecture	27 works in corpus
Architects	Helmut Jahn	Tadao Ando
Linked context	Bureaus Murphy/Jahn	Notable works Ryūō Station Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan Row House in Sumiyoshi Onomichi City Museum of Art
Typologies	tower	building museum education campus building residence urban house landscape church
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass steel
Carbon signals	tower 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.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	21 of 22 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	Tadao Ando: Complete Works