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From 2012.igem.org

Heygate State (London)

Using iridiscent coatings to bring some colour to some of the ugliests parts of Europe.

Every city in Europe has residues of the modernist utopian view that large apartment blocks would make our life much more convenient. Today some of these buildings are derelict areas.

This is a concrete example from London's Southwark neighborhood in Elephant & Castle, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate|Heygate State].

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1oz1B9Xwg

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http://cityofstrangers.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/heygate-stairwells-ii.jpg

http://humanendeavourphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/4-final.jpg?w=720

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Heygate_Estate_from_Strata_SE1_tower.jpg