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Identifier: citybank00rusk_0 (find matches)
Title: A city bank
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Rusk, Forrest Seiler
Subjects: Bank buildings Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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o the prestige and reputation of the bank. American bankinteriors are usually a thing of colored marbles,stainedglass,tinted panels,gilded carvings,and highly polished woods.The ceiling ohould be high enough to give dignity to the build-ing. The lighting conditions control,to a certain extent,thevarious shapes given the counter. .Natural lighting is alwaysto be preferred to artificial ana lighting from above ohoulu. M. 11. be used where possible. In concluding it may be said in regard to design in abanjt building,more than elsewhere,one should find durability,dignity,ana simplicity. It should look it3 character,thatof a business house in which the elements of security andsolidity are emphasized. Necessarily a comparatively lowbuilding,if it houses the bank alone,it must hold its own inscale and dignity with buildings on either side of it five orsix times its height. It must be in a style permanently ac-ceptable , since it is built not for one or two years,but fora long period of time.
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