Futuro House

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I have always been in love with this spacey house. Is it not cool?

I would love one tucked away in the mountains.

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah! They do look cool, but I would be worried about all the plastic. I found a post about an abandoned on in Munson, TX that really needs some love.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

I have sooo many mixed feelings about this. Imagine the convenience of installing one of these - no architects, no designs, no fabrication...all done already! A single one is so unique and interesting, but a whole neighborhood of them as in that photo seems quite ugly. And doesn't it seem odd all those seats just around the edge of the building? "Le bungalow" - ha!

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

A whole neighborhood of these would also sort of defeat the purpose of having something unique. I already live in a neighborhood where all the houses look pretty much the same. Maybe if each one was a different color it would look better.

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

there's a house west of Denver on I-70 very similar to this! we always just called it the UFO house (http://onthepondfarm.blogspot.com/2010/07/space-ship-house-north-of-denver.html).

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

And also on I-280 driving up to San Francisco

[dan4behr.livejournal.com]

I remember one of these very well. It's just off a highway near Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I used to make my parents ride me by it just so I could see it in the 70's....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vman-pics/sets/72157631613122965/

[kat-food.livejournal.com]

It looks like the house from Woody Allen's "Sleeper". I wonder if there's an orgasmatron inside. :D

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Or the house in Brian Depalma's Body Double.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

There's one (or was one) in Sydney, on the northern beaches or up that way. A friend of my mother's lived there.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Shocking! It's almost impossible to get anything unique or unusual built in Australia with all the planning laws and "objections" from neighbours. I'd love to drive up and see it.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Alas, while it was on Grandview Dr, Newport, and called the Pixie House, it doesn't appear to exist any more.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Oooo, I'm going to Whale Beach on the weekend for lunch, I may take a detour to just make sure!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

On the left hand side as you come from the beach end, apparently on a bend that goes right.

[simon robson (from livejournal.com)]

A whole list of them here - www.thefuturohouse.com

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

If you have tryptophpbia, this house is not for you. That one with the multiple windows going down already resembles a spider and it's starting to creep me out.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

There is something creepy or other-worldly about the oval windows.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of the Dymaxion House. I wonder how much -- or if -- this design was influenced by it.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I've seen a few pics of abandoned Futuro houses. It's nice to see ads/photos of the houses in their prime.

[coldwarunicorn6.livejournal.com]

There's one in Chattanooga that I'm pretty sure is still abandoned. The stairwell was broken by the original owners, though, supposedly because they had a fight and the wife lowered it on to his car. It's a weird area...Nearby there's a neighborhood built to look like a fairytale village in the mountains, complete with streets named after different characters.

[branwynn.livejournal.com]

Looks like an alien love shack :)

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

The original future house was a Finnish design (You can see that in the last picture, which is a book cover, it says "Tulevaisuuden talo menneisyydestä") These were wanted, but expensive and only a few dozens were originally manufactured. The smallest one was the ski lodge that had no kitchen or sleeping space or actually *no storage space at all*.

[simon robson (from livejournal.com)]

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