Word: baldachino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decorated with seven-story-high terra cotta pilasters, set against mirror glass and capped by what looks like the metal spout of a sugar box. Above the pilasters, on the front facade, is a five-story-high keystone that is topped off by what Graves calls a baldachino, a sort of lookout. On two sides the building is garnished with masonry garlands. At first these garlands were to be metallic fluttering-in-the-wind affairs, but the city council vetoed them as frills far too inviting for pigeons. Portland Mayor Francis Ivancie, an enthusiastic booster of Graves' design, persuaded...
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