On a rare lucid moment I put my sorrows behind and started reading about one of the things that doesn’t ever bore me, buildings. As I said, it all started when I was watching “Knight and day”. Silly movie as hell, so I was paying attention to all kind of uninteresting details. One of the scenes you can see Mr. Cruise escaping from the bad guys running above some old city’s roofs and jumping from building to building over some inexplicably pristine tin roofs. That made me think that the only time I saw a real tin roof close up was when my friend Sylvia lived in an attic flat back when we were in uni. I was wondering about that when I had the magnificent idea of reading a bit about it on the internet. I ended up in some Dutch company’s website ( http://www.nedzink.nl/ ), and among the examples they were giving of their work were the “cubic houses”. As always, one thing leads to another, and I was fascinated by the design and could not pass the opportunity of having a look at it in more detail.There is a website (although quite outdated) that explains the whole concept of the cubic houses, the history of the project and a brief biography of the architect. If you are as crazy as me, you can have look at it.
http://www.kubuswoning.nl/Back to the movie, Knight and Day... you can imagine, Tom Cruise on a “mission impossible” style role, pretty innocent girl that turns out to be a hero, conspiracies, and an astonishing lack of research (whoever decided the San Fermin bull runs take place in Seville should have lost his/her job). I think I’ve already talked enough about it. Totally not worth it.
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