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chequerboard

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chequerboard [ˈtʃɛkəˌbɔːd]
n
(Group Games / Chess & Draughts) another name for a draughtboard


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The 152 long and short containers are stacked four-high and attached at the corners with twist-lock connectors to form a chequerboard of solid and void.
The completed building looks at home in its context of nineteenth-century commercial and industrial architecture, though its chequerboard elevations break with the more formal geometry of the latter, more rigidly defined by structural bays.
The primary entrance faces Place Jean-Paul Riopelle and is marked by a marquis of white glass set in a chequerboard facade of glass laminated with brightly coloured film.
 
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