General / Off-Topic Back to the Futuro: the spaceship house that landed in Yorkshire

Para Handy

Para Handy
A bit of light relief from the Guardian the other day:

Dreamed up in Finland and shaped like a flying saucer, Matti Suuronen’s ‘house of the future’ turned out to be an impractical curio

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...the-futuro-house-flying-saucer-matti-suuronen

A licence to manufacture the Futuro was granted to around 30 companies throughout the world. The sole UK recipient was Waterside Plastics, in the mill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire.


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Just thought it might amuse.

[alien]
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Patrick_68000 said:
Ideal to go on holiday

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You might be interested in one of the last bits of that article:

"... after years of hard work and at great expense, Barnes has renovated the Futuro ... then shipped to Le Havre, northern France, for the city’s summer festival this year" ...

Have fun and remember to send selfies from it. :)
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
If I lived near Le Havre, I would have gone to see it.

Especially that the visit is free !

But as I am far, I am satisfied with the photos on Google

:)
 

Robin of Spiritwood

Robin of Spiritwood
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We have been cheated -CHEATED- of that atomic utopia!
I want my Jetsons house, my jetpack, flying car and sonic handgun! The flights to Mars! And the pretty blond girl in the silver jumpsuit too. Preferably a robot girl, that would be cooler.

Where are the politicians who promise us good things? Why has nobody latched onto this?
 
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metatheurgist

metatheurgist
I'll have to see if I can dig up the article but there are claims that China has developed a man portable laser gun.

We used to have UFOs like those in the OP in our parks in West Australia.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Robin of Spiritwood said:
We have been cheated -CHEATED- of that atomic utopia!
I want my Jetsons house, my jetpack, flying car and sonic handgun! The flights to Mars! And the pretty blond girl in the silver jumpsuit too. Preferably a robot girl, that would be cooler.

Where are the politicians who promise us good things? Why has nobody latched onto this?
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Re that pic: Can anyone else remember when "made in Japan" meant it was cheap rubbish tat? (Look at us now.) :)
 

Uvelius Sång

Uvelius Sång
Reason was actually the oil crisis with steep price rises as far as I can recall.

By the way, there is a pretty neat one in Berlin, excellent condition, standing opposite to Plänterwald, privately owned and if the owners feel like it, open for visitors (at least it has been some years ago; was all kinds of awesome to be in there).
Current article (German): https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/futuro-13-das-ufo-im-plaenterwald-30166208

PS. There is a brilliant (and huge) book about those kinds of houses: "Prefab Houses". Including the other classics as well: https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/architecture/all/44601/facts.prefab_houses.htm
 
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JetsonRING

JetsonRING
Round homes are impractical. Furniture is designed for square rooms, paintings are designed for straight, not curved walls.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
JetsonRING said:
Round homes are impractical. Furniture is designed for square rooms, paintings are designed for straight, not curved walls.
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Isn't that rather a chicken and egg situation?


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In the British Isles, iron-age roundhouses, brochs, wheelhouses, etc were circular for a reason. Circular dwellings are extensive in "non-westernised" civilisations and are even seeing a resurgence in some eco-friendly western projects.

Thank goodness for curved-screen TVs eh? ;)
 
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