Glass Houses of the Botanical Garden

 

Those claiming that "extra-terrestrial" architecture came to Graz only with the Kunsthaus do not know the glass houses by Volker Giencke. Amidst bourgois villas in Schubertstraße, three converging slanted parabolic cylinders in acrylic glass arise. Their ideal layout allows lavish growth of plants from four different climate zones inside.

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