Impossible M.C Escher Houses

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Darkstar sent me this fabulous Google Earth Houses. You can see both photos inside this article, along with Google Maps aerial photo of the location. Anyone lives near them? Darkstar wrote: "Hi, I just found these impossible houses through Google Sightseeing. They look like something M.C. Escher would do." Here's a .kml file. We had some pretty cool satellite images in the past too. Be sure to check Google Earth category for more like: mega zoom airport, ipod shuffle, MC Escher Town, swastika building, Selhurst park Jesus, flying car...








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  1. Anonymous t 

    they look very posible and very real to me they are just abnormaly shaped

  2. Anonymous Mike 

    I'd hate to try to hang stuff on the walls.

  3. Anonymous Iddo 

    They sure are for real. You can find them in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Here are some more pictures: http://www.pbase.com/sammeke/rotterdam__deel_1

  4. Anonymous Wilmer (Dutch) 

    You can find those strange houses in Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
    There is only one problem, there is al lot of unused space, because of al the corners.

    btw the called paalhuizen (=pole-houses)

  5. Anonymous Jorrit 

    These buildings are built by a Dutch architect Piet Blom in the cities Rotterdam and Helmond. The first ones are built in 1975.

  6. Anonymous Dennis 

    I've seen them in real-life!

    You can find these "Cube-houses" in downtown Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
    For more info click here...

    Greetz
    Dennis

  7. Anonymous caff 

    what is more strange to me is the block of flats down the right appears to be upside down.

  8. Anonymous Laura A. 

    Hey :)

    Hehe:) These Houses are called Cubic Houses are located in Rotterdam! They are designed by Piet Blom in 1984. I live close to this place! It's really awesome job. I've been inside of one cubic house and suprisingly they are quite spacious are cozy inside - there are living appartments there!

    Vheers!
    Laura

  9. Anonymous Red. 

    Wow, they look great but I don't see how they're impossible...?

    Still wanna live there though.

  10. Anonymous S 

    Actually, these houses do exist. They were built in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They were designed by Piet Blom.

    You can see more pictures here:
    http://karlanl.blogspot.com/2006/07/kubushuis-rotterdam.html

  11. Anonymous Garfieldhome 

    They are in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. They are called Kubuswoningen (Cube-houses) and designed by Piet Blom. More information about them can be found at http://www.kubuswoning.nl/introkubuseng.html.

  12. Anonymous chick 

    Very cool. Imagine if that was your house and you had someone over for the first time!

  13. Anonymous meeow =^.^= 

    wow, that's neat

  14. Anonymous Kalev 

    I have seen them before

  15. Anonymous Ecthelion 

    hey man, that's Rotterdam, Netherlands! I live very close to them. Very real, even one open to visit. They are called "kubus woningen". Allthough Escher was from Holland, he didn't create the houses. I can't remember the name of the architect.

  16. Anonymous Hotshott 

    Pretty Neat!!

  17. Anonymous Yo 

    all I have to say is PHOTOSHOP.

  18. Anonymous Eragon 

    they are fake obiously!!

  19. Anonymous Patrick 

    They are houses, located in The Netherlands, Rotterdam, created by the architect Piet Blom. They were built in 1982. I live in the town Helmond, also in the Netherlands. There you can find the first 'try outs' of the cube houses. These house were built in 1975. Later at the end of the 70's, more houses were built in Helmond, including a theater.

    You can find it on wikipedia, the links:
    http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuswoning (dutch version)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_houses (english version)

    If you want I can provide you the kml file for Helmond, but it's quite low resolution....

  20. Anonymous Geoff Coupe 

    These are the Kubus (Cube) houses, designed by the Dutch architect Piet Blom. They were built in the 1970s. A web site devoted to them is here:
    http://www.kubuswoning.nl/introkubuseng.html

  21. Anonymous Dennis Kay 

    +1

  22. Anonymous rohtop 

    it's in Rotterdam The Netherlands, called "kubus woningen" (cube houses)

  23. Anonymous Becstra 

    It's too bad we can't show a floorplan or pix of the inside, 'cause I'd love to know where the floors are!!!

  24. Anonymous Michael 

    I first saw these in the Jackie Chan movie WHO AM I. Jackie has a foot chase sequence running through them. They are very cool. I would LOVE to see the interiors!

  25. Anonymous Mac fan for ever 

    That houses are in Rotterdam. They are normal but the shape is weird. I live near Rotterdam.

  26. Anonymous illusionlover 

    yeah it's real - it's in washington state near the great lakes, or in illinois (can't remember which). Really neat building.

  27. Anonymous bufar 

    That is really cool. I don't think they are real houses, though.

  28. Anonymous Spock 

    Nice!!

    It is in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
    I live quite close to them!

  29. Anonymous apple pie 

    those r awesome!

  30. Anonymous Stryker 

    This is differant, usually we get illusions that make you think they are something they're not. This is real and looks out of place like it isn't suppose to be there. Keeps you guessing ,I like it.

  31. Anonymous Hosios 

    This is really cool! You can't possible imagine what mankind invented around the world. Google earth rocks! And this site even more. Keep up the good work!

  32. Anonymous Pandas 

    Ive seen building like that before. not those buildings exactly, but i have. not exactly common, but not rare either

  33. Anonymous Robby 

    ditto, but they do look cool!

  34. Anonymous me 

    heh i love this stuff......thinks its cool.....what's wrong with being real? i want MY house to look like that! ;-) ps....were the garbage cans next to the comment always there?

  35. Anonymous Derk 

    They're absolutely real and they are located in Rotterdam. They're called 'Cube Houses' (Kubushuizen). I've been on the inside of one and on the inside there is very little space to live, but the design is still very Escher-ish.

  36. Anonymous Robert 

    lol @ comment number 1. So true. They not impossible at all lol

  37. Anonymous miies 

    These are the Cubic Houses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They've existed for decades and are quite famous. But the architecture is not really "impossible", just unusual.

  38. Anonymous Ardvark 

    The biggest kube in the center is actually an arena for lasergaming. Which is cool, as you can see everyone if you climb all the way up in the tip (downside is, everyone sees you as well after the first shot).

  39. Anonymous ETTTTTTT 

    THEY ARE REAL I LIVE NEAR IT

  40. Anonymous Foxx 

    does nobody read the comments? most of you are just saying the same things! I think the roofs look very much like mountains in the first pic and what makes them impossible is the image they have created on the google earth shot.

  41. Anonymous koogco 

    for one thing, read the comments before adding...
    think i have just read that they where the cubic houses in rotterdam 20 times =P

    anyway they are nice.. would love to see them real life, and even more to walk around inside.

    and for you types saying that everything is photoshopped, you might not want to find yourself at an illusion celebrating site.. the whole point is to find something unbelivable! (but true for the most part)

  42. Anonymous I Dont Read Teh Comments 

    These are the Cubic Houses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

  43. Anonymous chris 

    the first pic looks like someone was trying to make snowy mountains out of them

  44. Anonymous Anonymous 

    those appartments are very awsome indeed. i saw them 3 years ago when i went back packing! not as exciting inside though.

  45. Anonymous Darkstar 

    The title was referring to the fact it looks like one of Escher's impossible object. If it was impossible it wouldn't exist.

  46. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Lol, ik woon in nederland ^^
    =
    Lol, I live in Holland ^^

  47. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Yes it''s possible...
    There's a building in Toronto that is basically a cube standing on one of it's corners.

  48. Anonymous christine 

    whoa:P this is next to my school, one of the houses is bright purple now:)

    they are really neat, and i've also been in one. NO THEY ARE NO PHOTOSHOP they're real

  49. Anonymous tootwo27 

    cool but where is the runaway
    ^ ^
    (^_^)

  50. Blogger seanki 

    uhhhh... i think it is in ze roterdam




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