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The Portland Building, designed by New Jersey architect Michael Graves, has aroused strong local feelings since it was completed in 1982. The buff-colored building-basically a box with small windows and a recessed ground-level arcade-is overlaid with a pastiche of flat, ornamental motifs above a blue-tile base. Brown pilasters are capped by quasi-Egyptian capitals, while ribbon-like metallic swags decorate the upper stories and lend the whole a playful, Art Deco feel that softens the building's 15-story height. The 36ft hammered-copper sculpture of a muscular giantess named Portlandiaa (1984) crouches on the second-floor balcony with a trident in her left hand. The artist, Raymond Kaskey, based his design on Lady Commerce, the symbolic figure of agriculture and industry on Portland's city seal.