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The Cube Houses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, are endlessly fascinating to look at. It seems impossible that they could be good to live in, but people love them and they are very popular and not often available. These were just a few minutes walk from the apartment I had in Rotterdam in the mid 1980s and I'd often walk to them just to admire the architecture.
A 14³ cube with 10x10 moving surfaces. Not at all a DCEU motherbox. XD
Now I have to get some motor in there and make all sides move.... with only 10³ room that's quite the task. Any ideas? XD
Is this a Companion Cube decked out for Christmas? I've spotted several of them suspended within pyramid-shaped wooden structures in the city over the last week. Their function remains a mystery.
Selectively desaturated this picture a lot to give it a Christmas card-ish feel. Some parts of the picture were terribly over-exposed, gave it a _very_ quick, rough touch-up... would have ruled with multiple exposures and a tripod! The rough editing is why I've only put it up at a low resolution, I don't want my ham-fistedness to be too obvious ;P
The Cube has 6 different colourful mosaics on its sides and combines a lot of the things that I love: Lego (obviously), geometric shapes, colours, mosaics and patterns and finally some logic and maths.
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It was a very fun and satisfying build and it makes me so happy just looking at it.
Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, and beside the Blaak Subway Station. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The houses contain three floors:
ground floor entrance
first floor with living room and open kitchen
second floor with two bedrooms and bathroom
top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
(Bron: Wiki)
We're still working on stone cubes. Because of the swiss cheesy nature of the stone that I insist on, less than half of them end up being suitable for final polishing. You just don't know until you cut the cube.
Leonardo headquarters and showroom in Bad Driburg, Germany
Architects: www.3deluxe.de
Built from 2004-2007
Costs: 8 Mio. Euros
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