Corporate Four and The Principal Plaza,
Des Moines

Principal Corporate 4 Plaza

Corporate Four—Helmut Jahn, Chief Architect and Designer
The Principal Plaza - Peter Walker and Partners, Architects
Design Honor, 1998 ASLA Awards
American Society of Landscape Architects


Review taken from Landscape Architecturemagazine, November 1998:

"The Plaza was meant to unite a fragmented corporate campus and to construct a corporate plaza that would also accommodate the public - part of the bargain struck with the city when it decided to close a bisecting street. Walker's design uses a strong but diagonal axis to connect the buildings, a linear gesture borrowed from the company's corporate logo that serves to emphatically connect the two buildings. A mist fountain and central square enhances the kinetic presentation while also providing a stage for concerts."


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