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1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Perret tower (Grenoble) image

Tower in France

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Perret tower (Grenoble)

Grenoble, Grenoble, France · Exact work coordinates

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Tower in France

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Field	Perret tower (Grenoble) 1925 · Grenoble, Grenoble, France	William Emerson 1878 · Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1925	1878
Place	Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Place context	Grenoble, Grenoble, France	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	16°C · 13.8h daylight · 1 km/h wind	30°C · 12.7h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Crawford Market
Focus	Landscape project	4 works in corpus
Architects	Auguste Perret	William Emerson
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Perret Freres	Notable works Crawford Market St Mary the Virgin, Brighton Victoria Memorial, Kolkata All Saints Cathedral, Prayagraj
Typologies	tower landscape	building church sacred space museum memorial landscape cathedral
Materials	concrete	brick stone
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Brick and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Brick Stone
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.