This sprawling, 300,000-square-foot complex with its aggressively striated red- and blue-glazed-brick curtain wall is overpoweringly monumental in scale although it is only four stories high. Episodic in composition, the buildings meander across an 8.5-acre site. Princeton, New Jersey, architect Graves essayed his distinctive version of postmodernism here in a strange mixture of shapes generated by conditions that remain obscure. Most visible is the green-tiled semi-vault enclosing the currency vault. Crypto-classical but asymmetrical, the complex seems to want to be a little of everything. Marking the ceremonial entrance on Allen Parkway is Kent Ullberg's bronze eagle The Guardian (2005).
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch Building
2005, Michael Graves and Associates and PGAL Architects. 1801 Allen Pkwy.