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2002 · Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

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Seed wave 34 image for Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

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Field	Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2002 · Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	2002	1952
Place	Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	13°C · 13.2h daylight · 4 km/h wind	30°C · 12.7h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Library	2 works in corpus
Architects	Kjetil Trædal Thorsen	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Snøhetta	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	library cultural center civic building	tower housing
Materials	granite glass concrete	stone
Carbon signals	Concrete, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass Stone	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
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.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.