In architecture, shoebox style is a functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls.
[1] Dingbat apartments are an undistinguished shoebox style.
The puritan and repetitive shoebox style is seen as a way to low-cost construction.
[2] Shoebox style concert halls of rectangular shape are also popular, as opposed to the traditional circular amphitheatre, arena or horseshoe shapes.
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