| Type | work | bureau |
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| Year / years | 1948 | 1977 |
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| Place | Des Moines, Des Moines, United States | New York, New York, United States |
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| Place context | Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa, United States | Representative site: Oak Street, Westport, Southmoreland, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
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| Climate | 24°C · 13.3h daylight · 16 km/h wind | 24°C · 13.2h daylight · 25 km/h wind · via Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art |
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| Focus | Museum | 10 works in corpus |
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| Architects | | |
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| Linked context | Bureaus - Richard Meier & Partners Architects
| Notable works - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Bellevue Arts Museum
- Kiasma
- Horizontal Skyscraper – Vanke Center
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| Typologies | | - museum
- contemporary art museum
- cultural building
- hospitality
- office
- landscape
- building
- education
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| Materials | Not recorded yet. | |
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| 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. | Concrete, Glass, and Zinc look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. |
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| Lower-carbon levers | No levers surfaced yet. | - Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
- Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
- Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
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| Accessibility | Publicly accessible | 7 of 7 recorded works are publicly accessible |
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| Related books | No linked books yet. | No linked books yet. |
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