Cubic houses in Rotterdam

A set of innovating houses was built in 1984 on Overblaak Street in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. These houses have shape of cube which were tilted to 45 degrees. The composition consists of 32 cubes, all attached to each other. The houses contain three floors.

This set of buildings was designed by architect Piet Blom. He is best known for his 'Kubuswonigen' buildings built in Helmond and Rotterdam.

Cube houses have interecting feature. They looks like impossible figure from bird's-eye view as it seen in Google Maps. Special covered roofs of cubes looks like snow-covered mountain peaks.

A reptile from Escher's artwork

A very interesting object was found at Google Maps near Ciudad Juárez in Mexico. It represents a single reptile from Escher's artwork "Smaller and smaller" (1956). Below you can see the original Escher's artwork and part of it with reptile in similar position.

This artwork is an artistic illustration of hyperbolic space. Due to properties of such kind of hyperbolic space you can infinitely go towards the center of the square but never reach it. Also Escher illustrated hyperbolic space in his artworks "Snakes", "Circle limit IV" etc.

Impossible triangle in Perth

A 13,5 metres aluminium sculpture of impossible triangle was erected in Perth (Australia) in 1999. It's the biggest sculpture of impossible figure in the world. Many people who live near the sculpture do not suspect that it represents impossible figure because it looks like impossible object from single point of view only.

You can see it at Google maps in the center of the round about. You can clearly see the arms of the triangle going off in different directions.