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1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States

Mesa Laboratory image

Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Mesa Laboratory

Boulder, Boulder, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado

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Field	Mesa Laboratory 1961 · Boulder, Boulder, United States	Zeidler Architecture 1953 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1961	1953
Place	Boulder, Boulder, United States	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Boulder, Boulder, United States	Representative site: Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Climate	13°C · 13.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind	0°C · 13.7h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
Focus	Architecture	6 works in corpus
Architects	I. M. Pei	Eberhard Zeidler
Linked context	Bureaus I. M. Pei & Partners	Notable works The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) Beth Israel Synagogue (Peterborough, Ontario) Canada Place Meridian Arts Centre
Typologies	building	education campus building tower building hospitality performance venue sports venue infrastructure
Materials	concrete	fabric steel
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Steel and Fabric look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Fabric
Lower-carbon levers	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. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.