According to the Futuro House's fansite:

Finnish architect Matti Suuronen designed and built a series of ovaloid, flying-saucer-like houses out of fibreglass in the late 1960s. He called them Futuro. Suuronen's houses were comfortably large but light enough to be carried to remote sites by helicopter.

Wright auction house sold the Futuro House on June 2, with a suggested price of between $50K and $70K, but in the end the house fetched only the bottom end of that range — astonishingly cheap for a house, although maybe it's closer to being a mobile home really.

Check out some of the other items that Wright just auctioned off:


Chromium organs made by Atelier Van Lieshout (just $5K, unsold!)

Acrylic stool by Shiro Kuramata (just $30K, also unsold!)

Zen Chair by Kwok Hoi Chan (just $2,000, also unsold!)

Jitterbug Atom by Buckminster Fuller, sold for $3,125.

Monohex Dome design by Buckminster Fuller, sold for just $3,250.

4-D House blueprints by Buckminster Fuller, $5,000 to $6,000... amazingly enough, unsold. Make them an offer!

Non-Symmetrical Tension Integrity by Buckminster Fuller, sold for $2,500.

We already showed you a ton of buildings that look like the Death Star — not just sphere shaped, but in many cases sporting that telltale "Prime Weapon" housing. And Life Without Buildings pointed out the Sandcrawler's influence on the Casa da Musica a while ago.

But now Architect's Journal has rounded up the saga's 10 greatest architectural achievements, including the Death Star and the Jawa sandcrawler as well as eight others. And here are some of the buildings they say are influenced by the Death Star, the Sandcrawler, the Cloud City of Bespin and the Senate Building on Coruscant:

(Parisian office building photo up top, by LemimPix.)

[NiceForEveryone]