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| District Heating Plant Spittelau, Vienna
1988-1992 |
 ienna has the persistence of its Mayor Helmut Zilk
to thank for Hundertwasser’s having taken on the task of redesigning the exterior of
the Spittelau district heating plant. Originally Hundertwasser
had opposed the idea, upon consulting his friend, the environmentalist Bernd Lötsch, as
he had fundamental objections to a garbage-incinerating plant as long as all possibilities
for avoiding garbage  were not
exhausted. But when it was promised that the plant would be equipped with the most modern
emission-purification technology, that 60,000 apartments would be heated whose emissions
would otherwise be a further source of pollution, thus making Vienna’s air cleaner,
and in view of the fact that a metropolis such as Vienna would need a garbage-incinerating
plant despite the greatest efforts to avoid garbage, Hundertwasser finally agreed to do
the design. |
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