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Blom combatted the ideas of conventional residential architecture by tilting the cube shape on its corner and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. Blom's main goal was to create an urban area that felt like a village. [1] The cube houses around the world are meant to optimize the space as a house and to efficiently distribute the rooms inside ...
The cube houses in Rotterdam. Piet Blom (Dutch pronunciation: [pid ˈblɔm]; [a] February 8, 1934 in Amsterdam – June 8, 1999 in Denmark) was a Dutch architect best known for his designs of the Bastille (1964–1969), [1] a restaurant and student facility at the University of Twente, Enschede, the housing project Kasbah in Hengelo (1969–1973), [2] and the Cube Houses built in Helmond (1972 ...
Cube houses in the Netherlands, designed by Piet Blom, built in Helmond and designed for Rotterdam. The rose window of Lancing College Chapel in England, designed by Stephen Dykes Bower, is completed.
A new sugar cube house sits in a slice of Miami called Silver Bluff, a sleepy residential neighborhood between Coral Gables and Coconut Grove. Rising above land on stilts and a roof adorned with ...
He gained attention together with Tom Kinslow for the construction of T-House, a home made of Cor-ten in Wilton, New York. [5] He also designed the Cube House in Ithaca, New York. [4] In 1995, he was one of two first-prize winners in a competition to design the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, but in a tie-breaker vote his design was not selected ...
Thomas Andreas Blom (18 November 1777 – 21 November 1841) was a Danish master mason, architect and developer who contributed to the rebuilding of Copenhagen in the years after the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 and the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807.
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Marcio Kogan (born March 6, 1952, São Paulo) is a Brazilian architect and filmmaker best known for his work on private homes and retail design.The son of engineer Aron Kogan (1924–1961), a designer and contractor of several major skyscrapers of 1950s–1960s São Paulo such as Edificio São Vito and Edificio Mirante do Vale, he graduated from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University School of ...