🏛️ Igloo supermarket and residence

Other · Other · 37.87°S, 145.11°E

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The Igloo supermarket and residence are an historically-significant former supermarket and current residences, co-located in Ashwood, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Completed in 1954, designed in the Modernist style by Robin Boyd using a series of arches, patented as the Ctesiphon system of construction—modelled on the Arch of Ctesiphon—the concrete structures resemble igloos that integrates the walls and roof of each building into a singular structure.

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Coordinates (approx.)37.87°S, 145.11°E · view on map

Igloo supermarket and residence is located in Other, in Other.

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