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Sleeping on a slant with The Tim Traveller in Rotterdam

Piet Blom's Cube Houses offer a hostel bed, a museum visit and some awkwardly angled living space.

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I Tried The Netherlands' Entertainingly Experimental 1980s Cube Houses

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0:40Dutch funding encouraged experimental housing as an alternative to monotonous post-war architecture.
1:16Piet Blom's design places tilted cubes on pillars, with houses built in Helmond before Rotterdam.
2:30The Stayokay hostel offers overnight accommodation inside interconnected cube houses.
4:32Angled walls leave some floor space unusable, while downward-tilted windows introduce another design compromise.
5:40The Kijk-Kubus museum preserves a multilevel show home, including its sky lounge.
6:23An Art Cube gallery provides another way inside, although Tim missed it during his visit.

The Tim Traveller needed last-minute accommodation in Rotterdam. His solution put him inside one of the city's most recognisable architectural experiments, with sloping walls turning a room tour into a practical test of how these houses actually work.

In "I Tried The Netherlands' Entertainingly Experimental 1980s Cube Houses", he checks into the Stayokay hostel before visiting the Kijk-Kubus museum house, preserved as a multilevel show home. Architect Piet Blom's tilted cubes look wonderfully improbable from outside; inside, Tim finds the trade-off between visual adventure and floor space you can actually use. Downward-tilted windows are another little complication. Staying overnight, though, is very much part of the appeal.

There were no new uploads this week, and the month-old Rotterdam visit is the busiest of the channel's highlighted older videos. It has passed half a million views. The geographical curiosities keep coming elsewhere in the archive: "Why Is This Village Called \"Y\"?" pursues the shortest place name after a longest-name expedition, while "The Town With 30 International Borders Running Through It" explores a rather less straightforward map.

The subscriber count held steady, and daily viewing is running well below its usual level. Nearby travel channels had varied weeks: SteveMarsh and Chris Howett each added more than a million views, while The New Travel also recorded no subscriber change. For Tim, the useful discovery this week remains in Rotterdam: you don't have to live in an experimental house to find out where the furniture might fit.

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