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1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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Boekentoren

Ghent, Ghent, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Field	Boekentoren 1936 · Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1936	1960
Place	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Ghent, Ghent, Belgium	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	9°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind	8°C · 14.3h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Education building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Henry van de Velde	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Henry van de Velde	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	library education campus building house	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
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 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. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.