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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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Comparison

Field	Des Moines Art Center 1948 · Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Mario Botta Architetto 1970 · Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1948	1970
Place	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Place context	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Representative site: Cologny, Cologny, Switzerland
Climate	10°C · 13.5h daylight · 8 km/h wind	11°C · 13.8h daylight · 1 km/h wind · via Bodmer Library
Focus	Museum	12 works in corpus
Architects	Richard Meier	Mario Botta
Linked context	Bureaus Richard Meier & Partners Architects	Notable works Bodmer Library San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
Typologies	museum	museum library house church sacred space cathedral education campus building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	Not recorded yet.
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.	museum, library, house, and church gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	No levers surfaced yet.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.