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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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Field	Scottish Parliament Building 1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Hassan Fathy 1930-1989 · Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1930-1989
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Climate	8°C · 14.6h daylight · 9 km/h wind	24°C · 12.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via New Gourna
Focus	Government building	1 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Hassan Fathy
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works New Gourna
Typologies	government building civic building	housing settlement village masterplan
Materials	Not recorded yet.	adobe mud brick earth
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.	Adobe, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Adobe Brick Earth
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely. Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.