By Doug Pahl Winston Churchill once observed, “We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us.”  Twenty years ago, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Proctor Hug stood in the gleaming green lobby of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and reminded us of Churchill’s wisdom.  It was November 13, 1997, and an unprecedented group of dignitaries gathered to celebrate and dedicate Portland’s first new courthouse since 1933. [Editorial note: After a collections digitization effort, we have added this 1994 video of the courtroom mock-up process as well as the courthouse dedication ceremony. The ceremony begins at about 10 minutes.] Judges, court staff, administration officials, designers, and artists, all…