Des Moines Central Library

10th & Grand Ave

Completed in 2005

Designed by David Chipperfield in partnership with Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck

Cost to build $32.3 Million – 110,000 sq. ft. (38.5 million in 2012  $’s)

Glass curtain walls are 14 ft tall panels – triple pane with 39,760 sq. ft. of copper mesh incased in the layers

Green roof — to alleviate “urban heating effect”

Architect designed most of the furniture