This is a typical backyard in Christchurch! The Avon flows in front of it and one of the pastimes in the area is punting on the Avon. Christchurch is known as the most English city in New Zealand
This is the Futuro house. Finnish architect Matti Surronen designed and built 96 of these ovaloid flying-saucer like houses in the 1960's. This one happens to have landed in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens.
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The futuro house is very strange! How many square feet of living space does it have?
The Futuro is approx. 11 feet high and 26 feet across. A hatch door in its lower half opened down to reveal steps, like the door of a small airplane, and led into a room outfitted with six plastic bed-chair combinations and a central fireplace slab, as well as a kitchenette, a bathroom and one small bedroom.
Love the flower photos, the symmetry is amazing. I wonder what the cost was on one of those UFO homes. They'd fit in well with some of the geodesic dome houses in the high country around here.
There are 96 Futuro homes in existence if you can find them. Most of them are still being used and they have become collector's items.
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