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1998 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico

Torre Altus image

Residential condominiums in Mexico

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Torre Altus

Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico · Exact work coordinates

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Residential condominiums in Mexico

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Comparison

Field	Torre Altus 1998 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1998	1919
Place	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Paseo de los Laureles, Lomas de Vista Hermosa, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México	Representative site: Hannoversche Straße, Alfeld (Leine), Niedersachsen, Deutschland
Climate	15°C · 12.7h daylight · 1 km/h wind	11°C · 14.3h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Housing	9 works in corpus
Architects	Augusto H. Alvarez	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Augusto H. Álvarez	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	housing tower	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass
Carbon signals	housing and tower gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.