Paintings, as places in themselves, allow us to discover and explore other worlds created by their authors. Using paintings of streets and public spaces, this article explores the ways in which these spaces have been represented beyond mere comparison with reality. Using some examples from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century, this work focus on paintings of the city of Barcelona with diferent pictorial styles that show a collection of approaches in the way of painting the street. Paying attention to how the artist handles urban and architectural elements, the point of view and other resources, we discover other streets, those painted. Multiple streets, streets cut out between buildings, streets that are the scene of ordinary events that we observe with diferent eyes. From an architectural point of view, aspects and techniques of the pictorial sphere are thus highlighted, opening our gaze to a new way of understanding space. In this way, paintings seem to become a source of design tools, vehicles for discovering new meanings and new relationships through a constant journey of analogies, dichotomies and translations between painting and reality. "Reviewing painting as a transversal theme makes it possible to look at things that we had not observed before". (Monteys Roig, X., 2018. La calle y la casa: urbanismo de interiores. Gustavo Gili, Barcelona). Through the paintings and their own logics, the aim is to capture from another point of view the architectural conditions that construct the street, to bring us closer to understanding it in another way. This other view of the city provides us with project materials to be transferred between painting and architecture.