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1866-1883 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Palace of Justice, Brussels image

Seed wave 60 image for the Palace of Justice in Brussels.

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Palace of Justice, Brussels

Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 60 image for the Palace of Justice in Brussels.

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Field	Palace of Justice, Brussels 1866-1883 · Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1866-1883	1980
Place	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	13°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	22°C · 13.6h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Courthouse	3 works in corpus
Architects	Joseph Poelaert Joseph Poelaert	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Joseph Poelaert	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	courthouse civic building monumental architecture	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	stone	concrete
Carbon signals	Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Stone	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.