Compare

Compare works, bureaus, or a mixed set

Read a small selection side by side through images, place context, climate, typology, materials, carbon signals, accessibility, and related books.

Projects

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

Bureaus

1 selected · 1 other item held elsewhere in the compare set

Visual compare

The selected works stay in sync by slot, while the pins map where they sit inside the mixed set.

Hero image

1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scottish Parliament Building image

Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

Map pins

Site spread

Pins are normalized from the recorded work coordinates so you can read the set spatially.

Scottish Parliament Building

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

Focused slot

Hero image

Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

Credit:

Rights: Unknown · unknown

Comparison

Field	Scottish Parliament Building 1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Karl Moser 1888 · Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1888
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Climate	8°C · 14.6h daylight · 0 km/h wind	13°C · 13.9h daylight · 7 km/h wind · via Old Cantonal School Aarau
Focus	Government building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Karl Moser
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works Old Cantonal School Aarau St. Paul's Church, Basel St. Paul's Church, Bern Basel Badischer Bahnhof
Typologies	government building civic building	education church sacred space gallery tower performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	stone glass
Carbon signals	government building and civic building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	4 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.