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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	Pekka Vapaavuori 1994 · Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1948	1994
Place	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Place context	Des Moines, Des Moines, United States	Representative site: Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Climate	12°C · 13.5h daylight · 24 km/h wind	5°C · 14.9h daylight · 9 km/h wind · via Kumu Art Museum
Focus	Museum	1 works in corpus
Architects	Richard Meier	Pekka Vapaavuori
Linked context	Bureaus Richard Meier & Partners Architects	Notable works Kumu Art Museum
Typologies	museum	museum art museum cultural building
Materials	Not recorded yet.	limestone glass copper
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.	Copper, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Copper Glass Stone
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	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. Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.