45 Pieces of Urban Art Making The World More Beautiful

The city can be a grey place at the best of times. These artists are attempting to add a splash of colour to monotone skylines.

1 | Stained Glass Electrical Towers by Ail Hwang, Hae-Ryaan Jeon and Ghung Ki Park [Münster, Germany]

Source: Gunter Pilger

Source: Dan Machold

Buildings painted to look like faces by Nikita Nomerz [Russia]

Source: Nomerz

This park in Paris may look like a 3D Globe, but it’s actually flat.

Beautified Storm Drains by Anderson Augusto and Leonardo Delafuente [Brazil]

Source: Anderson Augusto

By growing different types of rice, some farmers transform their flooded fields into works of art.

Source: Cristina Ferreira

Source: Cristina FerreiraSource: Patricia Almeida

This colorful, zigzagging wall is made of 1.4 million-square-feet of naval rope, dyed with 3,000 gallons of paint.

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This piece of art is a 72-foot-long glass window wall fitted with stained glass of over 150 colors.

Mademoiselle Maurice spends days folding and assembling origami into creations that bring colour to urban areas.

Two Polish street artists came together to paint this amazing piece on the side of an old, ugly apartment building, transforming it into a work of art.

Dispatch Work

Source: Dispatch Work

Nature in the Concrete Jungle

Beautified electrical boxes by Mona Caron [San Francisco, USA]

Source: Mona Caron

Source: Mona Caron

Akiz Ikon spilt 500 liters of eco-friendly paint at an intersection in Berlin, this was the result.

Source: Zebrating

Source: Zebrating

Source: Zebrating

Source: Alexey Menschikov

Source: Alexey Menschikov

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Stained Glass Phone Booths by Jesse Olwen [South Korea]

Chandelier Street Lamps by Werner Reiterer [Austria]

Beautifying Traffic Bollards

Source: imgur.com

Source: imgur.com

Source: imgur.com

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