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Living in a work of art
The City of Vienna is Europe's biggest landlord owning 220,000
flats (a quarter of all Viennese apartments). Fifty-two of
them are found here on the corner of Kegelgasse/Löwengasse
in Vienna's 3rd district.
Friedenreich Hundertwasser's famous public
housing project was a reaction to the post-war housing
blocks. No straight lines, individual window design, colour
and trees on the roof were some of the ideas the Austrian
architect, artist and environmentalist incorporated into his
plans.
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"No person who is not a great
sculptor or painter can be an architect.
If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder."
John Ruskin
(1819-1900)
Lectures on Architecture and Painting (1854)
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