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checkerboard
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checkerboard
the pattern of a chess or draft board; used in many circumstances to display the results of mixing a specific number of variables. The variables are listed in columns designated along the horizontal border and the same or different variables in lines along the vertical border; the results of each mixing are recorded in the box where the columns and lines carrying the ingredients of the mix intersect.


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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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