House of the Future Tote

Four cantilevered wings extended from a central core, their curved interiors filled with visions of life thirty years ahead. Roughly twenty million people walked through it in ten years.

The construction was almost too successful: when demolition crews came to take it down, the wrecking ball reportedly failed to break the structure and simply bounced off; the house had to be splintered apart with choker chains. A specimen that resisted being removed from the guide.