2 - Nowadays there are also modern examples of buildings with the typical shape of igloo, such as the giant one in Fig. 12. It is situated on the George Parks Highway, 180 miles out of Anchorage; the initial idea of Leon Smith in 1970s was to build a modern building which could have a link with the traditional architecture of Inuit people. It was supposed to be a four-storey hotel, but its construction has never been completed due to code violation, being the windows undersized, and structural issues; the massive round structure is four stories high and it has been constructed with 888 sheets of plywood with urethane insulation on the outside and surrounded by concrete.