The eminent English architect John Soane, who designed the new Bank of England in 1788, offered to draw up plans in 1809.

Andrew Taylor (Architect) designed the Bank of Toronto at St. James Street & McGill Street, which was erected in 1893-94.

First Tuesday of the month is candlelit opening (6-9pm, big queues) at the marvellously eccentric Sir John Soane's Museum (www.soane.org), home to the 18th-century architect who designed the Bank of England.

His ties with Shibusawa Eiichi brought him the commission to design the Bank of Japan in 1890 (completed in 1896).

Tsuyee Pei was the father of architect I. M. Pei, who would later design the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong.

There he designed the Bank of Pennsylvania, the first neoclassical building in the United States to display a Grecian order.

To this end, he employed Sir John Soane, the distinguished architect who had designed the Bank of England and many other famous buildings, to build a State Dining Room for Number 10.

The following year he won a design competition for the State Library of Victoria, designed the Bank of New South Wales in Collins Street and the Geelong Town Hall.

Soane was a country bricklayer's son, most famous for designing the Bank of England.

Mr. Cook's firm, Cook + Fox Architects, designed the new Bank of America headquarters under construction on 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas.