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1997 · Glasgow City, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

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Auditorium located in Glasgow, Scotland

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SEC Armadillo

Glasgow City, Glasgow City, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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Auditorium located in Glasgow, Scotland

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Field	SEC Armadillo 1997 · Glasgow City, Glasgow City, United Kingdom	Pier Luigi Nervi 1932 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1997	1932
Place	Glasgow City, Glasgow City, United Kingdom	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Place context	Glasgow City, Glasgow City, United Kingdom	Representative site: Turin, Turin, Italy
Climate	7°C · 14.7h daylight · 14 km/h wind	15°C · 13.9h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Torino Esposizioni
Focus	Architecture	5 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Pier Luigi Nervi
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Torino Esposizioni Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption (San Francisco) Norfolk Scope Paul VI Audience Hall
Typologies	campus building	building church sacred space cathedral education campus building performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete
Carbon signals	campus building gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.