History & Updates
The video for CTRL, the first single taken from the 3rd album by UK based band Lazy Habits, was shot (at least in part) at Wanli. They also recently posted the rather cool drawing shown below to Instagram.
Helsingin Sanomat, published in Helsinki, is the largest Finnish daily newspaper. They recently published an article on the Wanli site.
The article, published digitally 051421 (not sure whether or not it was published in the physical newspaper), was titled «Lensivätkö suomalaisufot Taiwaniin?» or «Did the Finnish UFOs fly to Taiwan?»
Marko Home, Futuro historian and co-author of the iconic book Futuro: Tomorrow’s House from Yesterday was interviewed by the article’s author Mari Manninen, the C
In a recent email Chad DeBaker sent us a link to an interesting video on Youtube. The video, titled «The «gimmick» in the new case of the «spending a million» relocation of the UFO house creates a check-in point» according to Google Translate, was posted to Youtube by TVBS News 092920.
We cannot understand the commentary but Chad tells us that the site is being redeveloped next year and that two of the Futuro replica units have been refurbished for auction. If they sell and make a profit likely
We love this photo from Zach Praeger; not only is it a black and white shot but it has such an interesting composition with the foreground in focus and the Futuros blurred in the background.
Ting Na Wang, who has made several contributions to these pages, recently sent us this photo.
Every photo we have previously seen of the Wanli site has been from a time when the site was in some stage of decline. This photo is interesting in that though undated it is clearly from a time when the site was in its heyday and «full of life». Ting Na added that:
«When it was a popular attraction, tourist and village residents would camp right by the shore.»
Seeing the site like this is a reminder
This video, titled «Abandoned UFO houses (Futuro House Clone) in Taiwan», includes some great drone footage of the Wanli site. It was posted to Youtube by Corey Wong 101519.
This video by Vaan & Bibby was added to Youtube recently. It includes some nice footage of the Wanli site starting around 7:47 into the video.
Video footage of Wanli appears on the internet with some frequency; the videos below are a selection of those that have appeared recently. The first is a video posted to Youtube 081818 by Eileen Aldis; the video is over 18 minutes long and features some great aerial footage of Wanli along with great shots of both exterior and interior of some of the units.
Eileen offers some commentary on the history of the site; not too sure where the theories come from but they are interesting nonetheless and
Tyler Wood recently added this footage of the interior of one of the units at Wanli to Youtube.
This drone footage was captured February 2017 by Corrupted Video.
Alexander Synaptic (synapticism.com) has visited Wanli several times and each time he has kindly shared information and photographs with us. His 060714 report was one of several that referenced ongoing demolition work at the site and he chronicled the fact that four of the Futuros had «vanished» from the site; possibly removed but, based on other evidence, most likely demolished.
A year on it seems like the demolition activity has stopped, or at least paused. Alexander visited Wanli again 05171
On 082314 John Wheatley visited Wanli and shared with us what he found that day along with a set of photos which can be seen below. Thanks John.
One of the things John was able to do was annotate a photograph with the locations of each of the Futuros; a version of that photograph can also be found below. It should be noted that some of the units are hidden by trees. John also took a series of interior photographs; notable in one was the angled end of the bed.
John confirmed that there were sev
A day or two ago we received an email from Ting-Na Wang who sent us a link to this webpage (Chinese — English version courtesy of Google Translate here). Google Translate does a good job with some languages but is not so «smart» when it comes to others — Chinese is one of the ones that falls into the latter category — funnily enough if you use Chrome and allow the browser to translate rather than using Google Translate the translation is better (though still not good) which is odd since Chrome i
Alexander Synaptic (who took the awesome set of photos included in 121313 update below) emailed us a few days ago with an update on Wanli after making another visit to the site on 052914. It seems that there has indeed been some demolition activity and in fact there was a crew dismantling a Venturo as Alexander arrived at the site. There was a security guard present during Alexander’s visit and he was expressly forbidden from entering any of the units but he was able to get a good look around th
In a 041614 post on the Taichung University of Technology Interior Design Graduation Show Facebook page there is a photo (see below) which appears to be a collage of photos, maps and artist’s impressions relating to a reconstruction of the Wanli site. Facebook’s inbuilt «translate» function (which appears to give us an idea of what is being said but not to be able to give us a «true» translation) tells us that the posting reads in part:
«The Wanil Futuro House, a unique exterior with simplicity
While we have never been certain whether the Wanli units are Futuros, modified Futuros, copies of Futuros or just some weird coincidence (and to be frank we are still not certain) they do hold an interest for us and so this video, which appears to show the demolition of the Wanli site, was somewhat disconcerting when we saw it for the first time. We came across the video when a link was sent to us a couple of months ago by Helen (thank you Helen) who commented:
«I just came across a disturbing
Peggie Scott took an awesome series of photos of Wanli during the period between 221108 and 141208. With Peggie’s permission a few of these photos are displayed below; you can check out the complete set on Flickr.
A new set of photos of Wanli by picturenarrative make the latest confirmed date we have for this site 010912.
After a further look at some of the many photos taken at Wanli we believe it is possible to positively identify the building which houses the «hidden» Futuro despite the fact that it cannot be seen in Google Maps or Google Earth.
The image below shows Wanli from Google Maps. The superimposed photo is this one from the great set of photos by city tales. From that photo we see that we ar
Though there are a few examples of two Futuros located on a single site (Kvistgård, Carlisle, Huntsbury) almost all of the remaining Futuros are located one to a site. The one major exception is Wanli in New Tapai City on the Northern coast of Taiwan where there are no fewer than 13 Futuros along with a much larger number of Venturos. Though this is the largest concentration of Futuros known there appears to be very little information on the web (at least that we can find) about how or why the c
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