The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German
Hundertwasserhaus) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by
Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This landmark of Vienna is
located in the 3. district, Kegelgasse 34-38 / Löwengasse 41-43.
The house was built between 1983 and
1986 by architects Univ.-Prof. Joseph Krawina and Peter Pelikan. It features
undulating floors ("an uneven floor is a melody to the feet"), a roof
covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms,
with limbs extending from windows. Hundertwasser took no payment for the
design of the house, declaring that it was worth it, to prevent something
ugly from going up in its place.
Within the house there are 52
apartments, four offices, 16 private terraces and three communal terraces,
and a total of 250 trees and bushes. The Hundertwasser House is one of
Austria's most visited buildings, and has become part of Austria's cultural
heritage.
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