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1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scottish Parliament Building image

Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

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Scottish Parliament Building

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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Home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh

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Field	Scottish Parliament Building 1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1960
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	10°C · 14.6h daylight · 16 km/h wind	8°C · 14.3h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Government building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	government building civic building	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete timber
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.	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.