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with large exposed grey concrete surfaces, but occasionally combined this with large glass panes exposing the structure of the building from the outside, and interior details in wood. The best-known examples of this are the
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that "Stockholm is building the largest vacuum in the country". The public opinion against the project may have been strengthened by the fact that the
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practice of using rustication in bank buildings for this purpose. The Bank of Sweden had since 1907 been located to a semi-circular building on
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