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The cube houses in Rotterdam viewed from Blaak metro station. Cube houses (Dutch: kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Helmond and Rotterdam 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, since its main purpose is to optimise the space inside.
The cube houses in Rotterdam. Piet Blom (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpid ˈblɔm]; February 8, 1934, Amsterdam – June 8, 1999, Denmark) was a Dutch architect best known for his designs of the Bastille (1964–1969), a restaurant and student facility at the University of Twente, Enschede, the housing project Kasbah in Hengelo (1969–1973), and ...
Dutch architecture has played an important role in the international discourse on architecture in three eras. The first of these was during the 17th century, when the Dutch empire was at the height of its power. The second was in the first half of the 20th century, during development of modernism. The third is not concluded and involves many ...
Signature. Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan ( Dutch: [ˈpi:tər kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈmɔndrijaːn] ), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian ( / piːt ˈmɒndriɑːn /, also US: /- ˈmɔːn -/, Dutch: [pit ˈmɔndrijɑn]; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
This new House was created by the marriage between Maria Theresa and Francis Stephan, Duke of Lorraine. (Both of them were great-grandchildren of Habsburg emperor Ferdinand III, but from different empresses.) This new House was a cadet branch of the female line of the House of Habsburg and the male line of the House of Lorraine.
Huis Doorn ( Dutch pronunciation: [ɦœyz ˈdoːr (ə)n]; [5] English: Doorn Manor) is a manor house and national museum in the town of Doorn in the Netherlands. The residence has early 20th-century interiors from the time when former German Emperor Wilhelm II resided there (1919–1941). Huis Doorn was first built in the 13th century.
PS3566.A7756 D88 2019. The Dutch House is a 2019 novel by Ann Patchett. It was published by Harper on September 24, 2019. It tells the story of a brother and sister, Danny and Maeve Conroy, who grow up in a mansion known as the Dutch House, and their lives over five decades. [2] The novel was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [3]
Dutch colonial architecture is the type of architecture prevalent in the construction of homes, commercial buildings, and outbuildings in areas settled by the Dutch from the early 17th to early 19th century in the area encompassing the former Dutch colony of New Netherland in what is now the United States.