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Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina

2002 · Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Bibliotheca Alexandrina image

Seed wave 34 image for Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt · Exact work coordinates

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Bibliotheca AlexandrinaBibliotheca Alexandrina

2002 · Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Jakob Friedrich WannerJakob Friedrich Wanner

1860 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20021860
PlaceAlexandria, Alexandria Governorate, EgyptZurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place contextAlexandria, Alexandria Governorate, EgyptRepresentative site: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Climate19°C · 13.1h daylight · 16 km/h wind17°C · 13.9h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Zürich Hauptbahnhof
FocusLibrary13 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
  • Jakob Friedrich Wanner
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Snøhetta

Notable works

  • Zürich Hauptbahnhof
  • Frauenfeld railway station
  • Sulgen railway station
  • Weinfelden railway station
Typologies
  • library
  • cultural center
  • civic building
  • building
  • performance venue
Materials
  • granite
  • glass
  • concrete

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Carbon signals

Concrete, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Stone

building and performance venue gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

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Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.

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AccessibilityPublicly accessible4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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