View and Plan of Toledo (1610 14) is almost like a vision, all of the buildings painted glistening white.
There's laundry strung from one window to another, humble apartment buildings painted in yellow, pink and other pastels.
Each downtown block contains at most four buildings, painted yellow, blue or pink, and between them are dusty lots.
Renzo Piano, a celebrated museum architect, is already on his third model, a wooden structure consisting of 14 interconnecting buildings, painted red with glass roofs pointing to the north.
His mother is a co-owner of Northern Lights, an art business in West Hartford specializing in portraits of school buildings painted onto ceramic objects.
A year after this catastrophe London burned to the ground, its red nights and collapsing buildings painted by Dutch artists who were the photojournalists of their time.
The town is pretty, with old wooden buildings, painted in yellows, greys, violets and blues, with the windows, doors and porches in contrasting colours.
Combine that with buildings painted in pastel shades of orange, pink, yellow, green and blue, and the effect is marvelously picturesque.
Thanks to a Mexican government program called "schools of quality" the campus of three buildings painted sunflower yellow has five new computers for its 71 students, along with new books.
Those "alabaster cities" are simply the utopian vision of harmony and beauty that Bates saw at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair – the cluster of buildings painted bright white and lighted by thousands of newly invented incandescent bulbs.
