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swank
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It simultaneously demonstrates deep traditional appreciation of materials, light and space, and a lively understanding of the potentials of modern technology, without swanking about them.
From it stemmed the sterile Neo-Classical accountants' paradise of Canary Wharf in London's Docklands, the grim vulgarity of Michael Graves' Humana building in Portland - and, in the end, the flash swanking of people like Rem Koolhaas, who it seems, would do anything for effect and a powerful picture on the page.
 
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