In this exclusive video interview filmed as part of our high-tech architecture series, British architect Norman Foster explains how the headquarters he designed for HSBC in Hong Kong in the 1980s transformed his architecture firm into a global brand. More
TBC Forum by UNStudio is a financial centre under construction in the hills above Tbilisi, Georgia, that aims to be a more positive working environment than traditional bank headquarters. More
French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris.
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A new business-banking service called Anna has launched with a design-first strategy aimed at reducing admin hassle for small UK firms. More
Digital-only bank Starling has launched a debit card with a vertical design to align with the way people usually make payments. More
Los Angeles officials have approved plans to demolish a mid-century-modern bank by architect Kurt Meyer in order to build Frank Gehry's mixed-use complex on the city's Sunset Strip. More
Scooped white columns resembling upturned arches provide a decorative facade for the Coachella Valley Savings & Loan bank designed by E Stewart Williams, which is next up in our series spotlighting Palm Springs' mid-century architecture during the city's Modernism Week. More
This vibrant bank by architect Rudy Baumfield, based on Le Corbusier's famed Ronchamp chapel, is next in our series profiling Palm Springs' many impressive mid-century buildings during the city's Modernism Week. More
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its designs for the new headquarters of Swiss wealth management service and private bank Lombard Odier, which will overlook Lake Geneva. More
A massive skylight illuminates the newly revitalised trading floor for the National Bank of Canada, which was formerly a "dark and uncomfortable" space. More
A former bank in the historic centre of Montreal has been transformed into an office for a tech start-up and a cafe for freelance workers by local architect Henri Cleinge. More
Snøhetta has won a competition to design the headquarters of Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut, the firm's first project in Lebanon. More
Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how his design for a "big building composed of mini units" created a headquarters for Norway's DNB Bank interspersed with indoor and outdoor meeting places, in the penultimate movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More
Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). More
This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). More
Italian bank ChiantiBanca has opened a string of new branches in Tuscany that are designed to look more like traditional local eateries than financial institutions. More
Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has brought her trademark colour spectrum to a fourth bank branch in Japan by surrounding the facade with brightly coloured sticks (+ slideshow). More
A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (photographs by Lukas Schaller + slideshow). More
The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. More
Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten designed cardboard meeting rooms inside a bank in the Netherlands. More
