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Colourful wall of the Hundertwasserhaus

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A unique landmark in Vienna, the Hundertwasserhaus will make most visitors cheerful. Its shapes and colours are not just a whim of the architect and artist, but represent a conscious view on living in a city.
While the building is named after the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser who gave it its unique looks, the architect of the building is Joseph Krawina. As a reaction to urbanisation, and city people living separated from nature and in monotonous housing, they both wanted to build something different. All apartments are unique in themselves, also from the outside, to give each inhabitant his very own living space. Nature is integrated into the building, with not only a garden in the backyard of the Hundertwasserhaus, but also shrubberies and trees on the roofs of the building. This allows inhabitants to follow the seasons of the year by the nature surrounding them. City dwellers living in individual and unique apartments surrounded by nature. It is a true pity visitors are not allowed inside.
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