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Dutch East Indies Architecture in the Caribbean

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

In the beginning of the 20th century, architects from the Dutch East Indies visited Curacao and left a legacy of buildings that are the spitting image

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Buildings with distinctive Dutch East Indies architecture at Willemstad port, Curacao, October 2018.. tempo : 173054986575.

Buildings at Willemstad’s harbor boast the brightest of colors: ochre yellow, bright pink, and azure blue. In the past, almost all structures in Curacao’s capital were painted white. In the early 19th century, as the urban legend goes, the governor-general had eye problems, and his doctor’s diagnosis was that the sun’s reflection on the buildings was too bright. Thus, the governor-general decreed that all buildings had to

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