Here's a special for you - let's not get a pretty and blue - this post is about the funky and ugly - and I'm going to present a special post on this particular apartment building in Vienna, Austria. You know it's weird when you stare at it from the outside - all black with a funky zig-zag shape from the outsides of the building. When you look into the inside, you see a very odd green interior which to a normal person is very disturbing. While I don't like this color scheme, I'm very tempted to look more into the merits of this building, despite it's disastrous colors - among them is the use of natural lighting to light up the stairways as well as each individual rooms. This building's very peculiar color scheme probably helped it stood out from a neighborhood of small condos and apartments. But the really interesting thing about this building is if you peer into the other side of the building - you see your eyes playing tricks on you as you seemed to see a very messed up facade on each balcony - it becomes an illusion, much like the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Despite all the weirdness this building has, it does blend in with the industrial concept, or Bauhaus designs that have originated in Germany and thus spread out to other Germanic countries. It is a staple of industrial architecture - it is not modernist by any measures - instead it becomes it's own style in a special niche.
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