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1905 · Bern, Bern, Switzerland

St. Paul's Church, Bern image

Church in Bern, Switzerland

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St. Paul's Church, Bern

Bern, Bern, Switzerland · Exact work coordinates

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Church in Bern, Switzerland

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Field	St. Paul's Church, Bern 1905 · Bern, Bern, Switzerland	Piet Blom 1960 · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1905	1960
Place	Bern, Bern, Switzerland	Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Place context	Bern, Bern, Switzerland	Representative site: Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Climate	15°C · 13.9h daylight · 15 km/h wind	13°C · 14.4h daylight · 20 km/h wind · via Academie Minerva
Focus	Sacred building	4 works in corpus
Architects	Karl Moser	Piet Blom
Linked context	Bureaus Karl Moser	Notable works Academie Minerva Cube houses Cube house Theater 't Speelhuis
Typologies	church sacred space tower	building housing residential urban experiment dabas houses 3d modeling performance venue
Materials	glass	concrete timber
Carbon signals	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.	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.