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1920 · Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland

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Museum of rare manuscripts in Cologny, Switzerland

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Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland · Exact work coordinates

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Museum of rare manuscripts in Cologny, Switzerland

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Field	Bodmer Library 1920 · Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	John Scott 1950-1992 · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1920	1950-1992
Place	Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Place context	Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland	Representative site: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Climate	11°C · 13.9h daylight · 10 km/h wind	11°C · 10.8h daylight · 59 km/h wind · via Futuna Chapel
Focus	Museum	2 works in corpus
Architects	Mario Botta	John Scott
Linked context	Bureaus Mario Botta Architetto	Notable works Futuna Chapel St Canice's Church, Westport
Typologies	museum library	chapel religious building modernism church sacred space
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
Carbon signals	museum and library gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.