With permission from Moscow authorities some residents in the city are giving their homes a brand new look with the help of foreign designers and this way the city’s old Soviet-era buildings turn into works of art.

Much of Moscow was built in Soviet times, and back then attention was given to practicality rather than form and layout.

Though warm and functional, these buildings aren’t always pleasing to the eye of the capital’s visitors and residents.

Daniel is a 27 year old street painter from the Netherlands. He has traveled to Moscow with his friends to help give it a new look. With a spray can in his hand, he makes a brick wall in to a work of art.

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