Cube house

Blom combatted the ideas of conventional residential architecture by tilting the cube shape on its corner and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon.

The city council was not satisfied so Minister Hans Gruijters subsidized the building of 3 test houses in the Wilhelminalaan in 1974.

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 total area of the apartment is around 100 square metres (1,100 sq ft), but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.

With the original living layout intact, this cube house forms the backdrop for the work of various local artists.

[9] In 1996 a house consisting of cluster of three cubes was built along Eastern Avenue[10] Architect Ben Kutner and partner Jeff Brown had been inspired by the original cube houses and wanted to replicate the Rotterdam design on otherwise unusable patches of land.

The hexagonal base tilts the cubes at a 54.7 degree angle, which in turn allows viewers inside to see the street below from the windows.

The top floor is a pyramid shaped room with 18 windows that give the viewer a sweeping view outside.