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1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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Boekentoren

Ghent, Ghent, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Comparison

Field	Boekentoren 1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Oscar Niemeyer 1940 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1936	1940
Place	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place context	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Representative site: Milan, Milan, Italy
Climate	8°C · 14.2h daylight · 13 km/h wind	15°C · 13.8h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Mondadori
Focus	Education building	58 works in corpus
Architects	Henry van de Velde	Oscar Niemeyer
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Henry van de Velde	Notable works Mondadori Grande Hotel of Ouro Preto Casa do Baile Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha
Typologies	library education campus building house	building hospitality church sacred space chapel landscape performance venue gallery
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass
Carbon signals	library, education, campus building, and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	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.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	24 of 24 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.