Is there a reason that the buildings in many topical places are extremely colorful?

Question

Does it serve a purpose? Say, does a pink building stay cooler than a beige one?

Answer 1

Because of the culture. Caribbean people likes colorful things (clothes, houses) because of the African influences in many of the islands. (some has french style color paint)

like light shade of colors: pink, blue, beige, yellow, green. which looks really nice.

Answer 2

They but the least expensive paint that the store has in stock and sometimes just mix what they can get. Great results!!!

Answer 3

In Curacao, the appointed governor back in the colonial period got fed up with the pale white and brown colors of all the buildings, so he ordered all the buildings to be painted in bright cheerful colors. These buildings remain like this to this day, and the people on the island also prefer the happy colors over the darker colors most of the time.

Answer 4

It's colourful and bright like the weather and environment of the tropics. You can get away with it there...in the cooler climates it just looks tacky. I've seen many try to paint their houses tropical colours and it just doesn't work. The bright turquoise of the water, white sand, bright green palm trees, fuschia coloured flowers are what you see everywhere and painting buildings just 'keeps with the flow'.

Colour is therapy and in the tropics you can't help but be happy...it's bright, cheery, and colourful...contributes to the mood.

And it's also a cultural thing.