[2] The same year he was assigned the task of expanding the city, which involved designing housing estates, schools, swimming pools and parks and gardens.

[3] Indeed, Dudok was clearly influenced by Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin, pioneers of the garden-city movement in the United Kingdom.

Dudok continued to produce progressive, Dutch modernist structures in Hilversum for decades, through the 1960s, and had international influence.

While it was partly destroyed in the German bombing of Rotterdam in May 1940 during the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, numerous photographs, plans and other material documenting the structure's design and the structure have survived and recently aided in the production of a Dutch documentary on Dudok's department store.

He also designed the Collège néerlandais in the Cité Universitaire in Paris, a cultural centre in Baghdad and a cinema in Calcutta.