Designer Piet Blom. Initially there was also a theater in the same style, which later burned down. Fortunately, there are still photos. Like this black and white one at construction: The wall painting of the Speelhuis. Photographer J. van den Broek The same houses can be found in Rotterdam, although they are of a later date and much better known.
The cube houses in Helmond are 18 cube-shaped stilt houses. They were designed by Piet Blom, who subsequently applied the same design for the cube houses in Rotterdam. The houses initially formed an architectural whole with a theater, but that was destroyed in a fire in 2011.