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12018-02-09T01:39:17-08:00Type Three: Curaçaoan10plain2018-03-17T13:38:41-07:00Curaçaoan Features [Audio]The Curaçaoan features improve the Dutch type for this warm and sunny climate by adding breezy galleries. The tradition of painting in bright colors began at the request of a Dutch West India Company governor-general who complained in 1817 that the whitewashed walls reflected too much sun and hurt his eyes.
Curvy Gables Elsewhere [Audio]The Curaçaoan buildings often feature fanciful curvy gables like those found in European baroque and Afro-Brazilian architecture, and in formerly Dutch South Africa.
12018-02-08T22:57:39-08:00Curves1plain2018-02-08T22:57:39-08:00[Audio]Transcript: The Curaçaoan buildings often feature fanciful curvy gables like those found in European baroque architecture, Afro-Brazilian architecture, and in formerly Dutch South Africa.