Build between 1992 and 1994 as a social housing project by the city of Vienna. The tile work and general artistic direction is by the artist Arik Brauer and architect Peter Pelikan. It contains 33 social rental units and three ground floor commercial spaces
“Magistra” refers to the Latin phrase "Natura est artis magistra—“Nature is the teacher of art.”. The birds are two fieldfares (Turdus pilaris). The building is at Eimsbütteler Chaussee 79–81 in Hamburg(Germany)
This is from an art project in Vienna called Delete!, where they covered everything, which could be seen as ads in the Neubaugasse.
The Happy Planet Index is not really about happiness, but tries to measure how well a country is able to transform its natural resources into well being. For that it takes life expectancy and levels of happiness from the World Happiness Report and divides it by the ecological footprint, which is trying to measure the resource impact.
The top three countries are: Costa Rica, Guatemala and Tajikistan
As for others Brazil is 10th, Germany 16th, UK 19th, Italy 23, Japan 33, France 39, China 51, India 65, Australia 103, USA 105
The full report is here:
https://happyplanetindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPI_2026_final0607_compressed.pdf
On a bike shelter in Saanichton. Painted by Sarah Jim.
Source:
https://www.sarahjimstudio.com/other-works?pgid=kudi8bmc-31417fb0-be1e-4fa2-872a-5989b6a7e59c
