ARCH 62
AGIP PETROL STATION
Architectural concept

Design of a new service station for Arbeiterstrandbadgasse, 1200 Vienna, in connection with EXPO 1995 in Vienna, which was cancelled by a referendum in 1991;
Model 1:50: executed by Alfred Schmid, 1989

1989 - 1990
AgipAustria AG, Vienna

For Hundertwasser service stations are the main perpetrators of ecological and in particular visual environmental pollution. The service station designed by him is a precursor of reparations as part of the peace treaty with nature, an oasis in the midst of the technological concrete desert, it provides barriers of beauty against the madness of senseless speed.

mehr weniger
  • R. Schediwy, Hundertwassers Häuser, Vienna, 1999, p. 245
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 1244
  • Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 2006, pp. 84/85 (c), 312