In this video I’m in Den Bosch, in the Netherlands, looking at a housing idea that sounds like it should be brilliant: spherical houses. The Bolwoningen are experimental architecture from an era when governments and designers were willing to try genuinely odd shapes to solve very normal problems — cost, space, comfort, and building quickly. And the surprising part isn’t that someone built them. It’s that decades later, people still live in them. I dig into what a sphere does well on paper, and what it does badly the moment you have to put a bed against a wall that isn’t flat. Curved interiors make furniture awkward, storage annoying, and renovations harder than in a conventional box. There’s also the reality of maintenance and standardisation: if every component is custom, every repair becomes a bespoke problem. A lot of the historical context here comes from Dutch experimental housing research, and I’m grateful to local producer Jasper Deelen and camera operator Jeroen Simons for making this shoot happen — plus a quick look at Rotterdam’s cube houses thanks to Not Just Bikes. The takeaway is that “we can build it” isn’t the same as “we should live in it”: novelty architecture can be memorable, even charming, but day-to-day practicality tends to win.