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188 PLABUTSCHTUNNEL LÜFTUNGSANLAGE BY EILFRIED HUTH Year 1987 Status Endangered Material Clay Scale 1:100 Model maker Laura Feller Eilfried Huth was born in 1930 in Pangalengan, Indonesia. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz. In 1957 Huth founded his own architecture practice in Graz. He ran a shared office with the architect Günther Domenig from 1963 to 1975. Huth was appointed professor at the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1984.1 From 1983 to 1987, Huth, together with Herbert Altenbacher, designed the service buildings of the Plabutschtunnel, a 10km long motorway tunnel in Styria. The service buildings were nicknamed the Green Elephants and were made of exposed and sprayed concrete.2 1 Blundell Jones, Peter (1998): Dialogues in Time: New Graz Architecture. Graz: Haus der Architektur. 358. 2 Zach, Juliane (Ed.) (1996): Eilfried Huth. Architekt. Varietät als Prinzip. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag. 102.