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NYC °CoolRoofs

NYC °CoolRoofs is an exciting collaboration between NYC Service and the NYC Department of Buildings to promote and facilitate the cooling of New York City’s rooftops. Applying a reflective surface to a roof helps reduce cooling costs, cut energy usage and lower greenhouse gas emissions.  -- official web site

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Let's Paint The World's Ugliest City

With the project Couleurs Carolo, the Dutch company AkzoNobel aims to support the Belgian city of Charleroi to become a bit more colorful. The world-leading corporation, that obviously earns its money with producing paint, invests loads of money to add some color to the city that has been ‘officially’ declared the most ugly town in the world. -- The Pop-Up City

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Paint The Village!

Vercorin, a small village in the south of Switzerland, has an interesting marketing strategy to set itself apart from all the other mountain villages in the region. Every year the R&Art organization invites a group of creative people to spice up the place, and the results don’t go unnoticed. In 2010, design agency Lang/Baumann was asked to create an intervention. They came up with a fantastic geometric road painting. -- The Pop-Uo City

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Bratislava’s Green Square

When you think of revitalizing space, paint is perhaps the best option. At least it’s one of the cheapest. Here at a bus terminal in Bratislava the urban interventionists of Civic Association and the people of Sadovský Architects have uplifted a bus stop that used to be a very sad place. As long as the government is not doing enough to improve urban conditions, why don’t we do it ourselves? That’s what the initiators thought when they initiated the 1,000 square meters Green Square project. -- The Pop-Up City

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Smurbanism Works!

What was supposed to be a temporary transformation looks to be a permanent change. The South Spanish town Juzcar was turned entirely blue for the latest Smurfs movie by Sony Pictures. After 141 days blueness, the inhabitants of the small town have voted to keep the façades of the buildings blue forever. -- The Pop-Up City

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Color Jam: A Color Explosion In Chicago’s Public Space by Jessica Stockholder

an art piece that will span hundreds of meters and be located on sidewalks, roadways, and the sides of buildings this Summer in Chicago. Located at a major intersection in Chicago’s Loop, fluorescent colors will cover every part of, well, every thing, placing the passerby dead in the centre of the piece. -- The Pop-Up City

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Pink Street, Rua Nova do Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012 by Jose Adrião Arquitectos

In December 2011 Nova do Carvalho Street [Rua Nova do Carvalho] in Cais do Sodré was painted in pink colour. The gesture of painting a street in pink synthesizes in a very pragmatic and effective way the need for change. It created a dynamic public space, inclusive, opened and multifunctional which enables access to one of the most precious values of our time: information. At Pink Street one produces, shares and consumes culture. -- ArchDaily

Source: onsitereview.ca

Center line on Box Hill, Surrey, UK, 2012 by Richard Long

Richard Long's centre line on the zig-zag portion going up Box Hill in Surrey, part of the cycling track for the Olympics: evidently it was inspired by the graffiti chalked on the roads during the Tour de France, which, now that I've looked it up, isn't that interesting.  -- on site

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Steps, Beirut, Lebanon by Dehzahyners -- Vulgare