A Simple Library in the Park

摘要

Built on a brownfield site in Iowa's capital, the Des Moines Central Library serves as both a benchmark for the city's future green building efforts and as an integrated community resource center. The Building Team responsible for Des Moines Central Library embraced the notion of designing a simple library in the park. London architect David Chipperfield took that idea and ran with it, designing a modern, monolithic structure wrapped in a shimmering high-tech copper skin that sits in Western Gateway Park, a 13-acre brownfield site that's the centerpiece of the Iowa capital's downtown redevelopment.