Fernwärmewerk
Spittelau
watercolour, crayon
and marker
©2011 Charlene Brown
As I have mentioned before, I am fascinated with the designs of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, a fabulous painter whose work covers several buildings around Vienna, such as the garbage incinerator/district heating plant, Fernwärmewerk Spittelau, I’ve painted here. An ardent environmentalist, Hundertwasser only agreed to undertake the incinerator commission when he was promised that the plant would be equipped with the most modern emission-purification technology and that 60,000 apartments would be heated, thus making Vienna's air cleaner.
I have written before about proposals which will mitigate the effects of climate change in more than one way ─ solar vineyards and deciduous firebreaks.
