Are mature adults allowed to wander around inside universities nowadays? Wouldn’t we need some kind of swipe card to get inside an actual building? ‘Go up those stairs, into the building and you’ll find it.’Īt this point, we’re a bit worried. ‘Oh, it’s in the courtyard,’ she told us. ‘Can I help?’ she asked, ‘We’re looking for a house that looks like a spaceship’, replied Mr Differentville. We were standing looking a bit bemused when a lady with a lanyard appeared. This confused me a bit as bright yellow spaceship houses are normally pretty easy to spot. We jumped into the car and headed to the map co-ordinates I had. The second morning of our trip saw us going to hunt for it.

The Canberra Futuro House is located within one of the campuses of the Canberra University – and it was about a 15-minute drive from our hotel in the Braddon district of the city. We’ve visited the derelict ones in Taiwan, a restored one in a museum in Munich and know of one you can stay in as an Airbnb in New Zealand – so to see another one right here in Australia got us very excited. They were designed as ski lodges in the 1960s, but, for various reasons they didn’t take off (no pun intended) as accommodations as such they are pretty rare – it’s believed there are only 96 left in the world. I’ve covered this a bit on the blog before when we found an entire abandoned village of them in Taipei, but, it’s basically a house that looks like a spaceship. Also, as an Airbnb Associate I earn when you book through my links.

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Here’s what you need to know about the house – and how to find it if you want to visit. But, there is one – and it has a really cool back story too. Things I was not expecting to find in Canberra – a fully intact Futuro House that you could sit in. Things I was expecting to find in Canberra – Parliament, museums, inventive cakes.

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