As we mentioned yesterday, over the next week or so a few members of 3Dwalkthroughs.com will be traveling throughout Eastern Europe. During our trip we will be documenting interesting architecture we encounter along the way.
Today we hopped on a tour bus which gave us a much better overview of the whole downtown area of Vienna than yesterday. During our tour we stopped to check out a very odd but original apartment building called the Hundertwasser House.
Here is a description of the famous building from Wikipedia.
The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German Hundertwasserhaus Wien) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
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"[citation needed]), 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[citation needed] and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.
It reminded us of something that Howard Roark would have built.
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