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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 CenterDes Moines Art Center

1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States

I. M. Pei & PartnersI. M. Pei & Partners

1955 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19481955
PlaceDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesNew York, New York, United States
Place contextDes Moines, Des Moines, United StatesRepresentative site: 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arrondissement of Paris, France
Climate13°C · 13.5h daylight · 22 km/h wind14°C · 13.9h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Louvre Palace
FocusMuseum52 works in corpus
Architects
  • Richard Meier
  • I. M. Pei
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Notable works

  • Louvre Palace
  • Louvre
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Syracuse University
Typologies
  • museum
  • museum
  • church
  • sacred space
  • landscape
  • gallery
  • education
  • campus building
  • infrastructure
Materials

Not recorded yet.

  • concrete
  • earth
  • brick
  • stone
  • glass
  • limestone
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, Brick, and Earth look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Brick
  • Earth
Lower-carbon levers

No levers surfaced yet.

  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible28 of 28 recorded works are publicly accessible
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