>>212858070Well maintained, new, or renovated buildings are almost always in white. There is this new trend where they're doing grey/blue stone instead for high rise residentials too
However, most of the typical brown 3-4 story buildings are commieblocks built by the socialist government in the 70's to house millions of new immigrants
They were painted brown because it was the cheapest paint, it is inexpensive outdoor paint that doesn't show much age unlike white
Now a lot of 3-4 story buildings in Israel look like this because to renovate the outside look of a building, all of the landlords have to agree to it, this is why usually the only time a building gets renovated is if its in a dire state and an entire internal/external/structural makeover for it is needed