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Futuro House: Article Archive, Links and Google Street Views
6 Mar 2010After seeing my first Futuro house in Delaware, I started poking around the web looking for information. How many of Futuros remain and where are they? Who bought them originally? All interesting reading. If you have any interesting links or stories to add to the list, please pass them along!
Google Map StreetViews:
- 224 Wright St. Covington, Kentucky
- 1304 Panferio Dr. gulf Breeze, Florida
- Chamberlain Rd – Carlisle, Ohio
- 2309 N. Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, Florida
- Route 12 Frisco, NC
- Highway 276 Munson, Texas
For More Information & Articles:
- WebUrbanist – Article: The Futuro House – Space Age Architecture Comes Home
- FuturoHouse.net
- archInform – Futuro House – Matti Suuronen
- FuturoHouse.com
- SignOnSanDiego.com – Article: Close Encounter
- Falling for a Futuro
- Wisconsin Futuro owner tells his story
- 70′s Futuro House
- New York Times: Futuro Flashback: The Prefab From Another Planet
- BoingBoing – Futuro House
- Futuro House by Matti Suuronen
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4 Responses to Futuro House: Article Archive, Links and Google Street Views
FuzzyGalore
March 6th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
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Traveler
August 17th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
There is a Futuro house on display at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand. see:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70568878@N00/page3/
Paul Chenard
February 3rd, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Cool!
They use to have those throughout New Brunswick for the Pizza Delight chain.
Fuzzygalore
February 10th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Thanks, Traveler!
New Brunswick, NJ, Paul?