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W. A. Sarmiento

Glendale Federal Savings
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Glendale Federal Savings, Glendale

W. A. Sarmiento
Peruvian-born architect W. A. Sarmiento designed hundreds of Modern-style bank buildings all over the country, but one of the most renowned and best-loved is right in Glendale.
Panorama Bank
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Panorama Bank

W. A. Sarmiento
This elongated concrete dome structure with its expanses of glass walls resembles nothing so much as an alien spacecraft touched down in the middle of Panorama City's shopping district.