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1967 · Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Commercial property in Helsinki, Finland

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Kirjatalo

Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland · Exact work coordinates

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Commercial property in Helsinki, Finland

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Comparison

Field	Kirjatalo 1967 · Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	Joseph Allen Stein 1952 · New Delhi, Delhi, India
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1967	1952
Place	Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	New Delhi, Delhi, India
Place context	Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	Representative site: Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Climate	15°C · 15.1h daylight · 15 km/h wind	30°C · 12.7h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Express Towers
Focus	Architecture	2 works in corpus
Architects	Alvar Aalto	Joseph Allen Stein
Linked context	Bureaus Alvar Aalto Studio	Notable works Express Towers India Habitat Centre
Typologies	building	tower housing
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone
Carbon signals	building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	Access not recorded across linked works
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.