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1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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Boekentoren

Ghent, Ghent, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Field	Boekentoren 1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Andrea Palladio 1540 · Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1936	1540
Place	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Vicenza, Veneto, Italy
Place context	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Representative site: Venice, Venice, Holy Roman Empire
Climate	12°C · 14.2h daylight · 9 km/h wind	18°C · 13.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via San Giorgio Monastery
Focus	Education building	59 works in corpus
Architects	Henry van de Velde	Andrea Palladio
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Henry van de Velde	Notable works San Giorgio Monastery Monte Berico San Francesco della Vigna Palazzo Thiene
Typologies	library education campus building house	church sacred space building museum housing house chapel cathedral
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone timber
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. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	18 of 18 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.