Dazzling Architecture

A joyous, quirky, and buoyant photography project for you this afternoon.

If anyone has ever been to Berlin, or any other major city for that matter, the architecture is often one of the major selling-points that attracts people from all over the world. However, the suburbs of these beautiful, major cities are often depressingly bleak, filled with monotonous, grey and dreary apartment blocks that provoke an inherent gloominess around them; if anyone is familiar with Paris, this is certainly the case in the Saint-Denis banlieues.  

To counteract this doom and gloom, amateur photographer Paul Eis has taken it into his own hands to inject some colour into the Berlin equivalent of the sombre Parisian suburbs. How?  Through retouched photography. To infuse these dull buildings with a touch of optimism, Eis recolours and retouches the buildings in post-production before uploading them for the world to see.

The result? Vibrant, vivid and optimism-filled images that look like they’ve been taken in a colourful utopia. Eis’ photos are impossible to look at without grinning from ear to ear and jubilant enough to forget how miserable the weather is outside.

Never have high-rise apartment blocks looked so appealing and lively, check out some of the photos below and Paul Eis’ Instagram here.