[5] They were intended as a vacation resort in a part of the northern coast adjacent to Tamsui, and were marketed towards U.S. military officers coming from their East Asian postings.

[6] However, the project was abandoned in 1980 due to investment losses as well as several car accident deaths and suicides during construction, which is thought to have been caused by the inauspicious act of bisecting the Chinese dragon sculpture located near the resort gates for widening the road to the buildings.

[7] The pod-like buildings became a minor tourist attraction due in part to their unusual architecture.

[5] Some sources indicate that most of the houses were demolished in 2010, and the site was in the process of being converted to a commercial seaside resort and waterpark.

The houses are referred to in the title of a track on the German pianist Hauschka's 2014 LP Abandoned City.