--- title: Paris’ Technicolor Basketball Court description: One way to repurpose an oddly shaped urban lot? Turn it into the world's most colorful basketball court. That's the idea behind this creation from... canonical: https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T10:51:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:32:25.926Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Paris’ Technicolor Basketball Court og:description: One way to repurpose an oddly shaped urban lot? Turn it into the world's most colorful basketball court. That's the idea behind this creation from... og:url: https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61038c7d5ae857d4/6988d5730a4a22efb69cf06e/paris-technicolor-basketball-court.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: paris-technicolor-basketball-court og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Paris’ Technicolor Basketball Court twitter:description: One way to repurpose an oddly shaped urban lot? Turn it into the world's most colorful basketball court. That's the idea behind this creation from... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61038c7d5ae857d4/6988d5730a4a22efb69cf06e/paris-technicolor-basketball-court.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Paris' Technicolor Basketball Court  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jul 13, 2017 10:51 AM UTC  Youth play basketball at the Duperre Pigalle playground in Paris, on June 29, 2017 Youth play basketball at the Duperre Pigalle playground in Paris, on June 29, 2017Benjamin Cremel—AFP/Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jul 13, 2017 10:51 AM UTC One way to repurpose an oddly shaped urban lot? Turn it into the world’s most colorful basketball court. That’s the idea behind this creation from French fashion label Pigalle and art firm Ill-Studio, which was first unveiled in 2015 and recently repainted–with help from Nike. Now the rubberized court, walls and hoops in Paris’ ninth arrondissement all have a sunset color scheme that Pigalle and Ill-Studio call their “interpretation of the future aesthetics of basketball and sport in general.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/"},"headline":"Paris' Technicolor Basketball Court","datePublished":"2017-07-13T10:51:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:32:25.926Z","description":"One way to repurpose an oddly shaped urban lot? Turn it into the world's most colorful basketball court. That's the idea behind this creation from...","url":"https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61038c7d5ae857d4/6988d5730a4a22efb69cf06e/paris-technicolor-basketball-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61038c7d5ae857d4/6988d5730a4a22efb69cf06e/paris-technicolor-basketball-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"paris-technicolor-basketball-court","caption":"Youth play basketball at the Duperre Pigalle playground in Paris, on June 29, 2017","creditText":"Benjamin Cremel—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4856236/paris-technicolor-basketball-court/","name":"Paris' Technicolor Basketball Court"}}]}] ```