What makes this six-story bank and office building stand out from its neighbors along the interstate loop is the clean horizontally banded design that contrasts reflective glass with granite-clad spandrels. The materials relate the building to the high-speed highway it faces.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Mercantile Bank Building", [San Antonio, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-SA126.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 187-187.
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