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The Hôtel du Département, like typical provincial or state capitols, must
combine repetitive office units with monumental forms and spaces appropriate for
the official and ceremonial functions of government.
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This building as a whole allow its individual parts to
acknowledge formal and symbolic variety.
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The building is modern as architecture and admits technological expression.
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Its unity proclaims its civic importance while its variety acknowledges that rich
variety that is evident today in the streets of Toulouse, as its architecture has
evolved over centuries.
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