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Thanks to the persistence of Vienna's Mayor Helmut Zilk Hundertwasser has taken on the task of redesigning the exterior of the Spittelau district heating plant.
Originally Hundertwasser had opposed the idea out of ecological concerns, upon consulting his friend, the environmentalist Bernd Lötsch, who had fundamental objections to a garbage-incinerating plant as long as all possibilities for avoiding garbage were not exhausted. But when it was promised that the plant would be equipped with the most modern emission-purification technology, that 60,000 apartments would be heated whose emissions would otherwise be a further source of pollution, thus making Vienna's air cleaner, and in view of the fact that a metropolis such as Vienna would need a garbage-incinerating plant despite the greatest efforts to avoid garbage, Hundertwasser finally agreed to accept to redesign this industrial site.
Hundertwasser's vision was that this spectacular industrial construction should be an example of a symbiotic harmony between technology, ecology and art, a reminder to society to mend its wasteful ways.