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1896 · City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom

British Library of Political and Economic Science image

Main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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British Library of Political and Economic Science

City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom · Exact work coordinates

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Main library of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Field	British Library of Political and Economic Science 1896 · City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1896	1919
Place	City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	City of Westminster, City of Westminster, United Kingdom	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	11°C · 14.1h daylight · 12 km/h wind	7°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Education building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Norman Foster	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus Foster + Partners	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	library education house	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass
Carbon signals	library, education, and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	5 of 5 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.