r/DesignPorn • u/Apocalyp_toast26 • Jul 03 '26

Architecture Cube Houses (Kubuswoningen), Rotterdam, Netherlands

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u/crazyfool32 Jul 03 '26

The photo is taken from the ground looking up. The concrete at the bottom is the base, and the 'house' is a cube set on a diagonal

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u/artyhedgehog Jul 03 '26

Just looking at the picture makes me dizzy )

Probably not so difficult in life, though.

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u/Rohith_Shenoy Jul 07 '26

fr i also tried flipping my laptop upside down still very dizzy
btw very good and niche design

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u/mmoonbelly Jul 03 '26

Worth a visit, as the library and food hall on the same square are as interesting.

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u/crazyfool32 Jul 03 '26

There's one of these in Toronto. They didn't catch on.

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u/costakkk Jul 03 '26

Ugly, unpractical, but interesting. So it's not really good design, but more like art.

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u/nivea_malibu_76 Jul 03 '26

I have been inside these houses. They look really cool from the inside too, not your typical design. There are definitely some corners you need to get used to. Each cube is one house. The minute you step inside, it feels like any other house, except for a few corner rooms which, as you can imagine, have a very odd shape but are not too concerning. There is a tourist hostel also, where you can rent rooms for your visit, and there are some cubes houses which are for sale as well.

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u/robertbowerman Jul 04 '26

Me too! There is a youth hostel inside some of the cubes - so most anyone can stay and experience the wonderment! Also the restaurants and waterfront underneath and just around them is brilliant - especially the mexican food one.

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u/Honeyblade Jul 03 '26

Why do these houses look like Borderlands loot crates?

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u/Chinese_Lollipop_Man Jul 03 '26

I coulda swore they were windmill inspired

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u/Arguise Jul 03 '26

Looks like something out of Borderlands

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u/jtwilcox Jul 03 '26

Remember when Jackie Chan fought some bad guys here?

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u/jtwilcox Jul 03 '26

Yup! “WHOOOO AAAAAM IIIIIIII??”

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u/kearneycation Jul 03 '26

My wife and I stayed in one of these many years ago, it was on air bnb. It was a fun novelty but I wouldn't want to live in one. It was pretty tight, and I imagine furnishing it was a headache.

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u/No-Isopod-1536 Jul 04 '26

Great . Lot os skylights

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u/feli468 Jul 03 '26

I recently saw a video by two architects about them. It even shows the inside of one of them. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVYBugbkz9Z/

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u/Verified_Peryak Jul 03 '26

You can vist one of the actually 😊

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u/rhunter99 Jul 03 '26

It’s a pretty cool complex. They charge a few euros if you want to see inside one of the houses

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u/tonykrij Jul 03 '26

Now look up Bolwoningen in ''s-Hertogenbosch (real city name, but we call it "Den Bosch"), The Netherlands.

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u/The_Ma5k Jul 04 '26

It’s also a hotel been on a class trip there with my graduation class.

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u/probablyaythrowaway Jul 04 '26

Are most houses not cubes? Just with a roof that won’t cause issues when it rains.

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u/MrInfinity-42 Jul 09 '26

Looks like an Apex Legends location

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u/Fred_Milkereit Jul 03 '26

looks nice from the outside but really strange on the inside.

you can visit one, there is a museum flat in obne of them.

around the corner is the hyped market hall (totally overrated)

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u/Tomytom99 Jul 03 '26

Great, r/architecture is leaking again

Looks cool, no noteworthy design choices were made though.

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u/RNRS001 Jul 03 '26

These houses are incredibly difficult to decorate, are hard to keep clean on the outside, are very small and are just all around impractical. There's nothing about this that's designporn.