A quirky waste incineration plant

Wouldn't it be great to have something like this in place of Payatas or Smokey Mountain? This is the Maishima Incineration Plant in Osaka Japan. It burns garbage. It was designed by the late Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and is modelled after a similar plant in Austria. Doesn't it feel like a giant art installation made from recycled garbage? I got the pictures from a classmate who went to Japan. Read more about it here.

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The tangible and material uninhabitability of slums is preferable to the moral uninhabitability of utilitarian, functional architecture. In the so-called slums only the human body can be oppressed, but in our modern functional architecture, allegedly constructed for the human being, man’s soul is perishing, oppressed. We should instead adopt as the starting point for improvement the slum principle, that is, wildly luxuriantly growing architecture, not functional architecture.

-- Mould Manifesto Against Rationalism in Architecture, Friedensreich Hundertwasser