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HIPPER BANKING IN PORTLAND According to the designers of a bank branch in the once-industrial, now-chic Pearl District in Portland, Oregon, button-down bankers in marble-columned buildings are now passé. Such old-fashioned symbols of stability and conservatism are being supplanted by new ideas about banking — and by comfortable, artsy spaces for customers. This new branch office of Umpqua Bank is the creation of architecture firm Thompson, Vaivoda & Associates and ZIBA, a design and branding
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HADID'S BERGISEL SKI JUMP Cobra, high-heeled shoe, golf club... Quite a few nicknames have emerged for the new Bergisel Ski Jump since its opening in September 2002. Time will tell if one of these nicknames will stick, but already the ski jump by the London firm Zaha Hadid Architects has become an important point of reference for the surrounding mountain landscape.
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More Architecture and Design Iridescence is the New Black — Metropolis, 2003.06New I.M. Pei Building Opens in Berlin — Deutsche Welle, 2003.0525 Cincinnati Museum Brings International Exposure — Louisville Scene, 2003.0525 Convention Center Displays Cutting-Edge Design — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2003.0522 Dwell Magazine Announces Winning Design — Designare, 2003.0522 New UAA Library Has Unique Design Features — Alaska Journal, 2003.0519 Rem Readings — New York Times, 2003.0518 One Big Geometry Exam — New York Times, 2003.0518 Oasis — New York Times, 2003.0518 Gehry Creates New Waves — Christian Science Monitor, 2003.0515 Tadao Ando Clark Art Institute — ArcSpace, 2003.0512 Pola Art Museum in Japan Wins Benedictus Prize — Dupont Benedictus press release, 2003.0508 Orange Studio Causes Neighborhood Ruckus — Metropolis, 2003.05
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