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Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, United States

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Des Moines Art Center

1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States

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Art museum in Des Moines, Iowa

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1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States

Álvaro Siza VieiraÁlvaro Siza Vieira

Porto, Portugal

Typeworkbureau
Year / years1948Unrecorded
PlaceDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesPorto, Portugal
Place contextDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesRepresentative site: Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal
Climate7°C · 13.5h daylight · 9 km/h wind11°C · 13.5h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Boa Nova Tea House
FocusMuseum6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Richard Meier
  • Alvaro Siza
  • Álvaro Siza Vieira
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Notable works

  • Boa Nova Tea House
  • Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
  • New Orleans (Rotterdam)
  • Gramaxo Foundation
Typologies
  • museum
  • hospitality
  • coastal building
  • restaurant
  • education
  • school
  • campus building
  • housing
  • cultural
Materials

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  • concrete
  • wood
  • glass
  • stucco
Carbon signals

museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet.

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Concrete, Glass, and Stucco look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
  • Stucco
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.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
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