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Antti Lovag

Wow! I want to live ina bubbletoo.

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Posted on 3rd July 2003 Details

The sculptured house

A tour of theCharles Deaton housemade famous by Woody Allen in his 1973 movie,Sleeper.

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Posted on 29th September 2003 Details

La bulle six coques de Jean Maneval (1968)

More (failed) space age architecture from the sixties, thesix shell bubble houseby Jean Maneval. Initially built as experimental housing for a holiday village in the French Pyrenees.

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Posted on 16th October 2003 Details

Osaka World Exposition 1970 - Takara beautilion

On the occasion of the the Osaka exposition in 1970, Japanese philosopher and architect, Kisho Kurokawa, designed a prototype for a new type of modular living structure. This construction was baptisedTakara Beautilion, a tubular framework that wouldn’t look out of place on the set of Space 1999. It could easily be assembled, dismantled or expanded, and various living capsules sat in the spaces within this structure.

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Posted on 28th June 2004 Details

Tracking the locations of the futuro flying saucer

Following up on my previous post concerning the Futuro House. The owner ofthis Futuro siteis trying to locate and document all Futuros still in existence today. One of them is his own, the lucky bastard. Anyhow, if you have any information, make sure you direct it his way.

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Posted on 4th July 2004 Details