German apartments Waldspirale are the 7th strangest building in the world

There is a ranking of the strangest buildings in the world in which atypical buildings are scattered around the world.The third place is a dancing house from Prague's waterfront, Waldspirale finished seventh in Darmstadt.

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Hundertwasser: Nature without true angles

Waldspirale / Forest Spiral - behind this name is all the philosophy of Austrian artist named Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (* 15.12.1928 in Vienna, † 19.2.2000 aboard Queen Elizabeth II, which sailed from Brisbane to Europe).His original name was Friedrich (Fritz) Stowasser and artistically focus of the Slavs living in Vienna, called him a hundred pipeline.

Austrian artist and designer Hundertwasser testified lines and right angles.Its model was Portuguese artist Antoni Gaudi, as well as Italian Sabato (Simon) Rodia and French Ferdinand Cheval.

The loner Hundertwasser was inspired by the Viennese Art Nouveau, especially Egon Schiel and Gustav Klimt.Painted brightly colored paintings on which were mostly spiral color shapes.

About his painting claimed to be vegetative.Had resistance to any symmetry;For this reason he wore socks of different colors.Tried to be independent of social conventions and tried to live in harmony with nature.Was against the use of nuclear energy and to protect rainforests.His green radicalism has manifested several times - participated in various demonstrations, some even completely naked.

His original name, according to some sources, was Stowod and sometimes even signed in Czech.He was also English, French and Italian and also communicated to Japanese, Russian, Czech and Arabic.

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The artist died on the ship but his building lives

The architecturally unconventional building of Waldspirale in Darmstadt, Germany, was realized by architect Heinz Springmann according to Hundertwasser's proposal in 2000, which is also a year in which Hundertwasser died.Was inaugurated this year.

In Darmstadt, the people are rumored among people that Hundertwasser did not come to the opening ceremony because he built a supermarket chain Aldi one of his stores.But this can hardly be believed because Hundertwasser was probably dead during the inauguration.When returning from New Zealand in February 2000 he was scrolled on the ship with heart failure.

The whole Darmstadt building with 105 apartments resembles rising ramp and has a floor plan in the form of u.There is a playground and a small pond in the inner yard.The forest spiral has an irregular outer facade, painted with different colors and its roof is planted with trees - not small.Trees also grow from different places of the facade in which windows are recessed.The windows are around 1000 and are chaotically located in places where we would not normally expect them.The mottled facade itself is covered with mosaics and columns of colored glass and ceramics.Color colors prevail on it.

Typical for Hundertwasser's project is that the construction is dominated by two gilded towers that take the form of onion.Flashing towers are visible from far away in Darmstadt.

Housing in the construction called Forest Spiral may be interesting when the tenant can deal with the fact that in some kitchens there are no walls at right angles, so you need to make a kitchen tailored or that floors in the rooms can be wavy, inclined and atBalts grow trees.

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In the last 30 years of his life, Hunderwasser has created dozens of atypical buildings scattered throughout the globe.These are the best known:

Hundertwasserhaus - House in Vienna on the corner of Kegelgasse and Löwengasse AM Quellenpark - House in Bad Soden, Germany Waldspirale - apartment building Darmstadt, German crèche - Frankfurt, German citadel - MagdeburgMelanchthon -Gymnasium - LutherStadt, German -coco -like meadow - house in Bad Blumau, Germany Church - Bärnbach, German -blooded market - Altenrhein, Switzerland

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Moving to New Zealand

Hundertwasser artist was also active as a postage designer.Signs for Austrian mail were realized.Also other countries such as Senegal, Cape Verde, Lichtenstein, France and Luxembourg used its art and atypical imagination.The United Nations also used its proposals.

Since 1986, Hundertwasser has also been a citizen of New Zealand and in 1999 he moved there to work on his other designs.One was a design of a sewage plant for the Japanese town of Osaka.

Looking at the shimmering Waldspirale tower in the shape of onions, we realize how much we can find in the quote their creator: "Man has three peels: with the first one is born, the second is his dress and the third is the facade of his dwelling."