Where the wild things aren’t
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 3:35 pm – Posted by Mandy | 3 Comments
Blogger: North Island Conservation Manager Mark Bellingham
Pimping your pavement, guerrilla gardens, nature deficit disorder - everywhere you look there’s a new buzz word to describe city-goers desire to bring the wilds back into their cities.
Hundertwasser House, Vienna
All cities evolve in different ways depending on aesthetic and economic imperatives but sadly across the board, wildlife has been given the heave-ho.
One man that tried to bring nature back into our cities resided right here in his twilight years - the Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
As a kid he dreamed of cities covered in garden rooftops and living breathing buildings that changed their colours with the seasons.