Hundertwasser House
Undulating apartment block with rooftop trees, mismatched windows and a policy letting tenants decorate their own facade.
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This guide to the Hundertwasser House in Vienna opens with a 2001 lawsuit over who deserves credit for this building, then rewinds to 1977, when the self-taught painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who thought straight lines were sinful, was invited to design an apartment block and handed the city an unbuildable model. It follows architect Josef Krawina's struggle to turn those sketches into something that could actually stand, and the trees and mismatched windows that resulted. Look for the tenants' own touches around each window as you walk past.
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