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    Soviet housing was famously drab. This Ukraine complex is all about color

    by Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times May 21, 2019 5 minutes

    KIEV, Ukraine - There's that moment near the beginning of "The Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy's house is swept away from the black-and-white world of Kansas and lands with a thud in Oz, a wonderland of blinding Technicolor.

    You get a similar sense of amazement when you walk into Comfort Town, a massive housing development that has taken shape in recent years in a drab, Soviet-era residential district of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

    Comfort Town looms over the landscape like some giant Lego set in the brightest imaginable hues: screaming yellows, bright lime greens, blues and oranges and deep brick reds - all rising into the sky in the form of dozens of blocky, high-rise buildings. Even the grays seem rich with pigmentation. The whole development covers some 115 acres, about 1 1/2 times the size of Disneyland.

    The colors

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