Building
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond has an aluminum facade and is one of the tallest buildings in the state. 49% of the building's total floor area is located underground. The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond was designed by Minoru Yamasaki who also designed the World Trade Center twin towers. The building was completed in 1975.
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Famous quotes containing the word building:
“Little Bill Daggett: I don’t deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house.
Will Munny: Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
—David Webb Peoples, screenwriter. Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman)
“History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)