A UKRAINIAN town looks like it’s made out of LEGO, with colorful houses and buildings.
Comfort Town, a suburb of Kiev, was completed in 2019 and stands in stark contrast to the other gray Soviet buildings that surround it.
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The buildings are painted bright yellow, green and orange and pink, including the exterior walls and roofs.
Many have compared them to Lego buildings, or as Monopoly houses and hotels.
Designers Dmytro Vasyliev, Aleksandr Popov and Olga Alfiorova were behind the project, according to Architecture Digest, and took 11 years to complete it on a tight budget.
The idea was to entice people to want to relocate to the area, by transforming the residential area – which covers 115 acres, about 1.5 times the size of Disneyland – into something more beautiful.
Mr. Vasyliev told the LA Times: “The only instrument we had to work with was color.
“We used the simplest materials, the simplest techniques. We really only had the color and the lines of the horizon line.
Inside the colorful suburb are cafes, shops and offices, as well as a huge outdoor sports complex and 8,500 apartments.
The vibrant colors saw home buyers flock to the area. As of February 2020, it was reported that over 200 homes were selling per month, the highest in the country.
Over 20,000 people now live in Comfort Town.
Zhanna Rzhanova, spokesperson for Comfort Town developers, said, “Either you love it or you hate it. There is nothing in between.
It’s not the only rainbow city – a small resort town in western Turkey has been painted multicolored as part of a global project.
Kuşadası, located off the Aegean coast, is popular with tourists thanks to its proximity to Ephesus, a busy cruise port for travelers.
And Banwol Island in South Korea decided to paint everything purple to match the local flower, the bellflower.
A village in Malaga attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year thanks to the fact that every building there is painted blue.
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