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The preoccupation with 'de Stijl'in
the twenties was space, supported
by colour. Like Van Festeren and
Van Doesburg expressed it in 1923:
'Nous avons examine ies iois de
Tespace etleur variations infinies
(c'est a dire Ies con trast es
d'espaces, Ies dissonnances
d'espaces, Ies compliments
d'espaces et nous avons
trouvé que tout es ces variations de
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Because in 1979 the town hall in
its fiftieth anniversary, 'de Kring
Groningen' of the Dutch Architect
Union organised a competition to
extension of the town hall could be
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design for a building that was in
sharp contrast with Berlage's
building. Fully detached from
Berlage's polygonal town hall, they
laid out a narrow, long building, also
Berlage's building because it was
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