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Green walls – Nature meets architecture
Hundertwasser House
Inside the Hundertwasser Village
KUNST HAUS WIEN
Café at the KUNST HAUS WIEN
Green wall in the Jean Nouvel building
Green wall in the Jean Nouvel building
MA 48 building
As early as the 1980s, the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser was creating a stir with his natural designs in Vienna. As an "architecture doctor", Hundertwasser's goal was to reshape austere buildings by introducing irregular structures and vegetation in a harmonious fashion. The 3rd District's Hundertwasserhaus, the greenest apartment complex in central Vienna, the Hundertwasser Village across the street with a shop and cafe, and the KUNST HAUS WIEN, the Hundertwasser Museum, are all famous. Both the rooftops and walls of these three buildings are greened with trees, shrubbery and flowers in surprising, bright colors.
Did you know that Vienna's green belt has tripled in size since 1905 to 19,000 hectares, and almost completely encircles the city?
When shopping at Stilwerk on the Danube Canal, there is an outstanding view of another of Vienna's "Green Walls": the interior courtyard of a building designed by architect Jean Nouvel, which contains a 600 m2 free-standing steel construction on which 20,000 different plants form a paradisiacal vertical urban garden. The wall explodes in colors that correspond to the seasons. This "Mur végétal" was designed by the French botanist Patrick Blanc, who unites architecture and nature in his vertical parks. His "green walls" can be admired worldwide in museums, hotels and shopping centers.
Did you know that more than half of Vienna's municipal area is covered with greenery? This includes not only parks and gardens but countless green roofs and walls as well.
Even along the Wiener Gürtel, the main transit corridor around Vienna's central districts, more and more parks and green spaces are being integrated to contribute to the improvement of air quality. The first step was the greening of the facade of the Agency for Waste Prevention and Separation.
Hundertwasser Village
Kegelgasse 37-39
1030 Wien
www.kalke-village.at
Opening hours
Prices
- Cheaper with the Vienna Card
Stilwerk Vienna
Praterstraße 1
1020 Wien
www.stilwerk.at
Contacts
- +43 1 212 06 10 50
Opening hours
- Mo - Fr, 10:00 - 19:00
- Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
MA 48 – Waste management, street cleaning and fleet
Einsiedlergasse 2
1050 Wien
www.wien.gv.at/umwelt/ma48
Opening hours
Kunst Haus Wien Museum Hundertwasser
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Wien
www.kunsthauswien.com
AccessibilityGuide dogs permitted
Main entrance
- Main entrance no steps (Swing door).
Elevator available
250 cm wide and 120 cm deep, Doors 200 cm wide.
More information
Restrooms with access for disabled persons available.
Comments
Main entrance and access to the restaurant / café: no steps, , floors are uneven, elevator.
Contacts
- +43 1 712 04 91
- +43 1 712 04 95
- info@kunsthauswien.com
Opening hours
- daily, 10:00 - 19:00
- Free tours:Hundertwasser exhibition (permanent) Su, 12:00
- Free tours:Hundertwasser exhibition (permanent) on holidays, 12:00
- Free tours: special exhibition Su, 15:00
- Free tours: special exhibition on holidays, 15:00
Prices
- Adults € 9
- Children (0 to 10 years) € 0
- Children (11 to 18 years) € 4,50
- Cheaper with the Vienna Card
