SPITTELAU INCINERATOR
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You can see its high tower from afar, you have to come to its foot to admire the thermal power plant in Vienna decorated by Hundertwasser.
The 9th district boasts a huge and very curious building that marks the Viennese landscape. With its large chimney covered with blue earthenware and topped with a golden bulb, visible from a great distance, this incineration plant supplies part of the city with heating via a thermal power plant. The Spittelau plant, built in 1988, owes its original architecture and multicolored decoration to Hundertwasser. It was commissioned by the visionary mayor Helmut Zilk.
The annual incineration of 250,000 tons of waste - out of the 600,000 tons produced in Vienna - provides district heating for over 40,000 Viennese households. The emission of toxic fumes is reduced to a minimum, to the extent that the nitrogen oxides produced are 100 times lower than those produced by a single automobile. Hundertwasser, a pioneer of ecology, was only persuaded to accept the project once he was aware of all these technical data. by "dressing up" the incinerator, he was able to prove that an industrial building could be harmoniously integrated into the urban landscape and at the same time contribute to the well-being of the community and even brighten up its surroundings. Since then, the Spittelau plant has become a symbol of the possible harmony between technology, ecology and art. There is a safe place to store your bike.
On a smaller scale, but in the same spirit, the façade of the neighboring subway station has just been greened.
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