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The buildings were scheduled to be torn down in late 2008, despite an online petition to retain at least one of the structures as a museum. Demolition work on the site began on December 29, 2008, with plans to redevelop the site into a tourist attraction with hotels and beach facilities.
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officers coming from their East Asian postings. However, the project was abandoned in 1980 due to investment losses as well as several car accident deaths and suicides during construction, which is thought to have been caused by the inauspicious act of bisecting the
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Some sources indicate that most of the houses were demolished in 2010, and the site was in the process of being converted to a commercial seaside resort and waterpark.
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sculpture located near the resort gates for widening the road to the buildings. Other stories indicated that the site was the former burial ground for
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houses, some examples of which can be found elsewhere in Taiwan. The site where the buildings were located was owned by Hung Kuo Group.
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due in part to their unusual architecture. The structures became the subject of a film, used as a location by
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The houses appear in a multiplayer map as part of the Apocalypse DLC map pack in the 2012 video game
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The UFO houses were constructed beginning in 1978. They were intended as a vacation
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for cinematography, and became a subject in online discussions, described as a
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The houses are referred to in the title of a track on the German pianist
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First-ever Taiwan-Sweden co-production film to begin shooting in Sanzhi
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The site features in one of the sequences of the 1987 action film
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Photo Archive 2008-12-17 for flickr user Peggie Scott
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Resort
UFO
Sanzhi
New Taipei
Taiwan
Chinese
pinyin
Sanzhi District
New Taipei
Taiwan
Futuro
resort
Tamsui
U.S. military
Chinese dragon
Dutch

tourist attraction
MTV
ghost town
ruins
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Hauschka
Futuro house
Wanli District, New Taipei
archINForm Archive: Futuro House
Hive mind search for 'Peggie Scott'
Photos by flickr user 'city tales'
Photo Archive 2008-12-17 for flickr user Peggie Scott

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