{"id":246,"date":"2014-02-10T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T22:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/?p=246"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:43:41","slug":"just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/the-netherlands\/just-around-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Just around the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Joran Koster is located at a place called \u2018De Blaak\u2019. This very large street is located near the Willem de Kooning Academy. But the place is best known for the Cube Houses.<br \/>\nAs a fan of the cube and lines I really like it here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cube Houses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of &#8220;living as an urban roof&#8221;: high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.<br \/>\n(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/759px-Kubuswoningen_in_rotterdam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-249\" alt=\"759px-Kubuswoningen_in_rotterdam\" src=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/759px-Kubuswoningen_in_rotterdam-300x237.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/759px-Kubuswoningen_in_rotterdam-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/759px-Kubuswoningen_in_rotterdam.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Rotterdam_Cube_House_street_view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-250\" alt=\"800px-Rotterdam_Cube_House_street_view\" src=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Rotterdam_Cube_House_street_view-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Rotterdam_Cube_House_street_view-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Rotterdam_Cube_House_street_view.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And thanks to\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nontect?feature=watch\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=S1H5UtE36fqJBt77gcAB&amp;feature=watch\" data-ytid=\"UCHc7NJMHsSOgkMIRuB_Kiwg\" data-name=\"watch\">Non Arkaraprasertkul<\/a>\u00a0we can have a look at the interior of those houses:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-oeuXe1MTJY?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studio Joran Koster is located at a place called \u2018De Blaak\u2019. This very large street is located near the Willem de Kooning Academy. But the place is best known for the Cube Houses. As a fan of the cube and lines I really like it here. \ud83d\ude42 The Cube Houses Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are <a href=\"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/the-netherlands\/just-around-the-corner\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Just around the corner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-netherlands"],"acf":{"plaats":"Rotterdam","ontmoet":[{"naam":"Joran Koster","website":"http:\/\/jorankoster.nl"}],"beelden":null,"titel_nl":"Net om de hoek","tekst_nl":"Studio Joran Koster ligt op een plek die \u2018De Blaak\u2019 heet. Die heel brede straat ligt vlak bij de Willem de Kooning Academie. Maar de plek is vooral bekend om de Kubuswoningen.\nAls fan van de kubus en van lijnen voel ik me hier echt thuis. :)\n\n<strong>De Kubuswoningen<\/strong>\n\n<p lang=\"en\">Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of \"living as an urban roof\": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.<\/p>\n(Uit Wikipedia, de vrije encyclopedie)\n\nEn dankzij <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nontect?feature=watch\">Non Arkaraprasertkul<\/a> kunnen we binnenkijken in die woningen:\n\n<iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-oeuXe1MTJY?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>","seo_titel":"","seo_titel_nl":"","omschrijving":"","omschrijving_nl":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathieucieters.com\/thegraphicnomad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}