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1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scottish Parliament Building image

Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

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Scottish Parliament Building

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

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Comparison

Field	Scottish Parliament Building 1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1964
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	9°C · 14.6h daylight · 5 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Government building	3 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	government building civic building	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber
Carbon signals	government building and civic building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.