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In St. John's NFLD, many houses around the downtown are painted like that as well. I love the look. Apparently, they would use boat paint because: A) they had a lot of it and B) it holds up well to the elements.
Atlantic Canadian here Newfoundland is famous for that. Not so much here in PEI but I think there are some bright buildings near the shore of fishing villages.
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Newfie here. Newfoundland dropped the NLFD abbreviation for just NL about 20 years or so ago. I’ve always heard that we painted the houses with whatever paint was on hand because the wind is strong that it strips away every couple of years. And we’re not a rich group of people, so whatever paint you have is the right paint! My grandfather used to remark on the houses “they were crap when the went up, but somehow last…
On the note of our acronym: After being a territory of Brittan, Newfoundland was its own country for a brief period of time. Much earlier before this point, Brittan conquered Labrador from the french (which used to be called "New France"), and the ownership over the land was disputed between Quebec and the self-governing colony of Newfoundland for quite some time. The dispute lasted into the mid 1920's, leaving the u…
Still. Check that border map according to what Quebec thinks vs official maps of Canada.
https://www.untoldmorsels.com/burano-venice-colorful-houses-...
I really wish they'd do this everywhere. In the town I live in there are a lot of houses and shops that are just exceptionally grim to look at. Everything is dilapidated, rotting, grey and pebbledashed. I can't help but think that, even if it's not fixing the root causes of why everything is shit, it would at least make things a bit less miserable and maybe give people a bit of joy and pride again for a pretty low co…
I really wish they'd do this everywhere. In the town I live in there are a lot of houses and shops that are just exceptionally grim to look at. Everything is dilapidated, rotting, grey and pebbledashed. I can't help but think that, even if it's not fixing the root causes of why everything is shit, it would at least make things a bit less miserable and maybe give people a bit of joy and pride again for a pretty low co…
I wish we would get rid of all the horrible, depressing brutalist architecture that blights London such as the Barbican, South Bank Centre etc.
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I wish we would get rid of all the horrible, depressing brutalist architecture that blights London such as the Barbican, South Bank Centre etc.
On the other hand I think those are fantastic. The Barbican is my favourite building/complex in the city. Much nicer than any of the dozens of glass boxes.
In Greenland they had a system to encode what purpose a building had. For example, if you were in a medical emergency, you would look for a yellow building. > Red buildings signified churches, schools, teachers’ or ministers’ houses. Yellow colours were assigned to hospitals, doctors, and health care personnel. Green was at first the symbol for radio communication and later became the colour of telecommunications. Th…
Is there a reason why they used those specific colors? I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively.
I think it's completely reasonable to assume Greenland has relatively separate history from wherever you got the "white and blue" intuition from.
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Is there a reason why they used those specific colors? I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively.
> I don't understand why a hospital would be yellow or a police station would be black by default. My guess would be white and blue, respectively. Snow. At least that'd be my first guess for not going with white. In general, you want to use distinctive characteristics that aren't common in that environment.
Imagine trying to find a hospital under these conditions, vibrant color coding helps save lives then:
In St. John's NFLD, many houses around the downtown are painted like that as well. I love the look. Apparently, they would use boat paint because: A) they had a lot of it and B) it holds up well to the elements.
Newfie here. Newfoundland dropped the NLFD abbreviation for just NL about 20 years or so ago. I’ve always heard that we painted the houses with whatever paint was on hand because the wind is strong that it strips away every couple of years. And we’re not a rich group of people, so whatever paint you have is the right paint! My grandfather used to remark on the houses “they were crap when the went up, but somehow last…
- The houses tended to be colorful
- Almost all the buildings I saw looked like they were just painted, I did see a couple buildings with peeling paint, but I think they were abandoned
- I personally saw around 10 different people in the middle of painting their houses just driving along in remote rural areas, all in the span of about a week. Where I live (in California), I only see this about once every 5 years.
- Paint stores are widespread, even in small rural towns where there are hardly any businesses at all
I don't know why the people of Newfoundland love painting their buildings so much, but it really makes the place look nice.
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Where did you grow up? Côte d'Azur? Right, let's dig into the authoritative source of all knowledge ... Wikipedia! According to that: "Riviera is an Italian word that originates from the ancient Ligurian territory of Italy" So the French region that Torbay riffs on is also itself riffing on an Italian region. and: "The Côte d'Azur (coast of azure) is a nickname given by France to the County of Nice after its annexati…
> So the French region that Torbay riffs on is also itself riffing on an Italian region. Maybe nitpicking but the French Riviera is just the (now) French side of the "original" Riviera. It's not a reference to a different place. Nice used to be part of Liguria before the 1860 annexation and the English simply kept refering to it as Riviera (while the French, including locals, only call it Côte d'Azur).
Riviera is still an Italian term, regardless of where it is applied - France or Inglaterra.
