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1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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Boekentoren

Ghent, Ghent, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Comparison

Field	Boekentoren 1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Adjaye Associates 2000 · London, England, United Kingdom
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1936	2000
Place	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	London, England, United Kingdom
Place context	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Representative site: Manhattan, Manhattan, United States
Climate	10°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	7°C · 13.5h daylight · 16 km/h wind · via Studio Museum in Harlem
Focus	Education building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Henry van de Velde	David Adjaye
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Henry van de Velde	Notable works Studio Museum in Harlem Nobel Peace Center Rivington Place Sunken House
Typologies	library education campus building house	museum civic building building house campus building memorial pavilion housing
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone
Carbon signals	library, education, campus building, and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.