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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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Des Moines Art Center

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Des Moines Art CenterDes Moines Art Center

1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States

Edwin LutyensEdwin Lutyens

1888 · London, England, United Kingdom

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19481888
PlaceDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesLondon, England, United Kingdom
Place contextDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesRepresentative site: Holy Island, Holy Island, United Kingdom
Climate18°C · 13.6h daylight · 23 km/h wind7°C · 14.6h daylight · 12 km/h wind · via Lindisfarne Castle
FocusMuseum102 works in corpus
Architects
  • Richard Meier
  • Edwin Lutyens
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Notable works

  • Lindisfarne Castle
  • Renishaw Hall
  • Deanery Garden
  • Overstrand Hall
Typologies
  • museum
  • building
  • house
  • landscape
  • civic building
  • infrastructure
  • hospitality
  • church
  • sacred space
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • timber
  • stone
  • brick
  • glass
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.

Brick, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Brick
  • Glass
  • Stone
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible30 of 30 recorded works are publicly accessible
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