It has a black facade painted with the yellow cross of the Swedish flag, and the interior is a minimalist aggregation of particle-board and metal shelving.
A photograph from 1862 shows the facade painted or stuccoed a light color, with dark shutters and access by high iron stairs.
This three-bedroom home, its concrete facade painted bright red, was custom-built in 1995 to evoke a traditional Aruban farmhouse called a cunucu, which blends European and Indian influences.
The space, to be delivered vacant, has been used as an artist's live-work space and offers frontage and a main entrance on Crosby Street, with a secondary entrance at 620 Broadway, which has a cast-iron facade painted blue.
JUNKMAN'S DAUGHTER Stretching for yards behind a facade painted in shrieking tints of psychedelic sapphire, pink and green are racks jammed with club gear: Leg Avenue vinyl dresses that lace up, milkmaid-style, at the front and rear ($56); crystal spider pendants; honeybee-stripe tights; and, for the strait-laced bargain hunter, BB Dakota funnel-collar coats in urbane houndstooth patterns ($68).
He knocked a Chinese-style moon-gate window into the facade; painted the exterior vivid colors like yellow and blue; transformed the interior with his collections of just about everything, including bottle caps, snowshoes and Buddhas; and planted the lawns with his sculptures, many wired as lamps, early-amusement-park style.
A grand Palladian facade, painted in yellow and reminiscent of an English manor house, is the first thing guests observe as they arrive.
The ancient port itself looks almost like a movie set, with new wooden benches, freshly potted plants and bright facades painted onto old buildings.
The narrow street is lined with historic buildings in the Bavarian gasthaus style: three or four floors, swept open wooden shutters, and street-facing facades painted in pastel-hued imagery of religious, pastoral and regional scenes.
Unesco-listed Cienfuegos on Cuba's south coast, founded by French émigrés in 1819, is Cuba's most neoclassical city, with broad colonnaded avenues embellished with neat lines of elegant, well-proportioned facades painted in an array of pastel colours.
