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1896 · City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom

British Library of Political and Economic Science image

Main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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British Library of Political and Economic Science

City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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Main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Field	British Library of Political and Economic Science 1896 · City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Joseph Poelaert 1850 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1896	1850
Place	City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Place context	City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Representative site: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Climate	10°C · 14.2h daylight · 8 km/h wind	8°C · 14.1h daylight · 10 km/h wind · via Church of Our Lady of Laeken
Focus	Education building	5 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Joseph Poelaert
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Church of Our Lady of Laeken Palace of Justice, Brussels Church of St. Catherine, Brussels La Monnaie
Typologies	library education house	church sacred space courthouse civic building monumental architecture house performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone
Carbon signals	library, education, and house 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	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.