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1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States

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Art museum in Des Moines, Iowa

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Des Moines Art Center

Des Moines, Des Moines, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Art museum in Des Moines, Iowa

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Field	Des Moines Art Center 1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Douglas Cardinal Architect 1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1948	1964
Place	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Place context	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Representative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate	6°C · 13.6h daylight · 11 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 17 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
Focus	Museum	3 works in corpus
Architects	Richard Meier	Douglas Cardinal
Linked context	Bureaus Richard Meier & Partners Architects	Notable works Canadian Museum of History Telus World of Science Edmonton National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies	museum	museum house performance venue landscape
Materials	Not recorded yet.	timber
Carbon signals	museum gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.