Colors add beauty to our world, and aesthetic value to object. It is something that designers, architects, craftsmen and artists work with on a daily basis. Color is a significant element of architectural design. Bright and colorful architecture has rapidly emerged in the past decade. Maintaining a complex and colorful building exterior is more difficult and expensive than maintaining a structure painted with a single color. These strange buildings have unique and exclusive color patterns to attract visitors. Listed below are some of the most colorful buildings around the world.
1. Comfort Town – Kyiv, Ukraine
2. Happy home Rizzo – Brunswick, Germany
3. Palais des congrès de Montréal, Canada
The Palais des congrès de Montréal is a convention centre in Montreal’s Quartier international. Designed by the architect Victor Marius Prus, it opened in May 1983. It has 200,000 sq ft of exhibition space, 65 meeting rooms, and 18 loading docks.
4. Anadyr – Okrug, Russia
5. Central Saint Giles – London, UK
Central Saint Giles is a mixed-use development in central London designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. Built at a cost of £450 million, the development consists of two buildings of up to 15 storeys in height. The mixed-use space includes 37,000m2 of offices and over 100 apartments. Chiefly notable for its facades, the buildings are arranged around a public courtyard lined with shops, cafes, retail units and restaurants. 134,000 green, orange, red, lime green and yellow glazed terracotta tiles cover the facades in 13 irregularly oriented vertical panels.
6. Center of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology – Moscow, Russia
7. Simplon Udvar – Budapest, Hungary
Simplon Udvar is a residential complex located in the South Buda area designed by Tt2.a Architects, run by father-and-son team Gábor and Bence Turányi. Arranged in a C-shaped layout, the building delimits the internal courtyard and rises seven storeys above ground and three underground floors for garages. The external facade is a colored glass of unmixed and bright colors including yellow, orange, red, green, dark green, blue turquoise and dark blue. Each colour marks a certain flat.
8. Kuggen Building, Sweden
9. The Paradise of Color – Beijing, China
10. Building in Petrozavodsk – Republic of Karelia, Russia
11. Dormitory – Utrecht, The Netherlands
12. Residential Complex – St. Petersburg, Russia
13. Santa Monica Civic Parking Garage
14. Cinque Terre – Liguria, Italy
15. Bo-Kaap – Cape Town, South Africa
16. Guanajuato, Mexico
17. San Francisco – CA, USA
18. St. John’s, Canada
19. Valparaiso, Chile
20. Santorini, Greece
21. Wroclaw, Poland
22. Spectrum Apartments – Box Hill, Australia
23. Hotel Kolop, Bratislava
24. MUSAC – León, Spain
25. Cologne Oval Offices, Germany
26. Nagoya Japan
27. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
28. Reversible Destiny Lofts, Japan
29. Handelskade Merchant Houses Willemstad, Curaçao Dutch Caribbean Island
The photogenic Handelskade Merchant Houses reminds of the Amsterdam canals with the difference that the gabled buildings are brightly colored in ochre, orange, blue or pink. It is the result of a decree by the first Dutch governor who allegedly suffered from terrible headaches due to the sun reflected off of the white buildings that had dominated the island. He ordered the houses to be painted.
30. CHOP Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care, Philadelphia
700,000 square-foot ambulatory care center, consisting of 12-storeys, is designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and FKP Architects. It has a curved facade boasting primary colors, and a glass-lined exterior admitting abundant natural light.
