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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	SEPRA 1936 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1936
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Climate	8°C · 14.6h daylight · 17 km/h wind	21°C · 11.1h daylight · 21 km/h wind · via Bank of London and South America building
Focus	Government building	1 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Clorindo Testa
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works Bank of London and South America building
Typologies	government building civic building	office building bank commercial building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	concrete glass
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 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	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.