These futuristic style apartments might look like they're from the discarded film set of the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, but they're actually houses on an abandoned luxury resort known as the San-Zhi Pod Village in Taiwan
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Construction of the UFO style apartments started in the beginning of 1978.The resort was situated along the coastline in the Sanzhi District, New Tapei City.The apartments were originally marketed to the American military that were serving in East Asia
The project was abandoned in 1980 after investment losses and several fatal car crashes that happened during the construction.Superstitious local people believed the deaths were due to the Chinese dragon sculpture being broken by builders to widen the entrance gates to the complex.
The pods have now been totally demolished and the area is set to become a commercial seaside resort and water-park.
6 comments:
Dope. Reminds me of the Futuro house from 70s Finland or the squarer Habitat 67 complex in Montreal - all way, way better than any of the paper-thin walled indentikit McFlats constructed in the UK in recent years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuro_house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
It would've been better if the apartment complex was finished and used. The design is futuristic than most houses built today.
I just can't imagine that this village exists before. If you'll think about it, you can only see them in the future.
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