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1978-1984 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

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Seed wave 59 image for the Cube houses.

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Cube houses

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands · Exact work coordinates

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Seed wave 59 image for the Cube houses.

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Comparison

Field	Cube houses 1978-1984 · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands	Souto de Moura Arquitectos 1980 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1978-1984	1980
Place	Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands	Porto, Porto District, Portugal
Place context	Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands	Representative site: Real, Dume e Semelhe, Real, Dume e Semelhe, Portugal
Climate	12°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind	22°C · 13.6h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Estádio Municipal de Braga
Focus	Housing	3 works in corpus
Architects	Piet Blom	Eduardo Souto de Moura
Linked context	Bureaus Piet Blom	Notable works Estádio Municipal de Braga Casa das Historias Paula Rego Trindade station (Porto Metro)
Typologies	housing residential urban experiment	sports venue museum art museum cultural building civic building
Materials	concrete timber	concrete
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.