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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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Comparison

Field	Scottish Parliament Building 1999-2004 · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Walter Gropius 1919 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1999-2004	1919
Place	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Place context	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Representative site: Alfeld (Leine), Alfeld (Leine), Germany
Climate	8°C · 14.7h daylight · 16 km/h wind	7°C · 14.3h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Fagus Factory
Focus	Government building	9 works in corpus
Architects	Benedetta Tagliabue Enric Miralles	Walter Gropius
Linked context	Bureaus EMBT EMBT Architects	Notable works Fagus Factory Sommerfeld House 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea Gropius House
Typologies	government building civic building	building education house church sacred space museum infrastructure tower
Materials	Not recorded yet.	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.	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.