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Welcome sign at Kissimmee Xanadu house, 1985. The most popular Xanadu house was the second house, designed by architect Roy Mason. [4] Masters met Mason in 1980 at a futures conference in Toronto. Mason had worked on a similar project prior to his involvement in the creation of the Kissimmee Xanadu House — an "experimental school" on a hill ...
Mason also favored the concept of computer automated homes which he demonstrated in his Xanadu homes with Bob Masters. Mason invented architronics, which was exemplified in his Xanadu House near Disney World. The Xanadu was a prototype of a smart home, with a control center in the family room, lightning control, automatic temperature control ...
The Kissimmee Xanadu, designed by Roy Mason was the most popular, and at its peak was attracting 1000 visitors every day. The Wisconsin Dells and Gatlinburg houses were closed and demolished in the early 1990s; the Kissimmee Xanadu House was closed in 1996 and demolished in October 2005. The name lives on in Bill Gates' private home. Xanadu 2.0.
During its brief time as an eye-catching Gatlinburg attraction, the house built of polyurethane foam drew curious visitors and harsh local critics. Gatlinburg's 'futurific' Xanadu House wowed ...
Image credits: dogswithjobs There’s a popular saying that cats rule the Internet, and research has even found that the 2 million cat videos on YouTube have been watched more than 25 billion ...
WNBA star Caitlin Clark has joined an ownership group that is bidding to bring a National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) team to Cincinnati.. Cincinnati is one of a number of cities looking to ...
Xanadu is a complex of 17 apartments in Calp, Spain. It was designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and completed in 1968. The building is intended to create "a garden city in space", [ 1 ] with its vertical shape echoing the nearby Penyal d'Ifac rock formation.
Donald Metz (born 24 November 1940) is an architect known for his earth-integrated house that was built in the 1970s to take advantage of thermal insulation. "The Metz House" was featured in Xanadu: The Computerized Home of Tomorrow (ISBN 0-87491-701-8) describing its similarities to the Xanadu House.