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This week County Executive Ed Day met with an unlikely donor to secure additional funding for a new county animal shelter.
Pit bull mix Roo presented Executive Day with two checks totaling $472,578 at the Hi Tor Animal Care Center in Pomona to be used for the construction of a new shelter building.
“We are so thankful to Hi Tor and all of the folks who donated to their shelter fund over the years for this contribution,” said Day.
“We will put this funding to good use in building the new state of the art facility to care for our County’s animals. We had expected roughly $350,000 from Hi Tor, so this amount is a pleasant surprise which will reduce the amount of County tax dollars going to the project.”
Ministry of Design Merges Banking and Biophilia at a Citibank Wealth-Management Center in Singapore
June 9, 2021
By Rebecca Dalzell
Money plants, parlor palms, and bird’s nest ferns are among the tropical species filling the conservatory at Citi Wealth Hub, a wealth-management center in Singapore by Ministry of Design. Photography by KHOOGJ.
The founder and director of Ministry of Design, Colin Seah, admits that his firm was not an obvious choice to design a high-end bank. “We’re a bit of a black sheep,” he says. “It’s our natural impulse to be slightly rebellious and question convention.” The Singaporean architect has earned accolades for such edgy constructions as the Race Robotics Laboratory, a futuristic black cave, and the piercing triangular Vanke Triple V Gallery. Investment banks, by contrast, favor plush but predictable interiors. Yet Citibank Singapore was ready for a change when it held a competition to create the Citi Wealth Hub, a wealth-management cent
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