Guess the City

Great work Albert R. Broccoli. My ideas were miles out on that one.

Brutalist edition.

https://i.postimg.cc/htc9B34B/433789-B1-A2-EF-42-E8-8-A82-52063-CDACEC0.jpg

Murmansk, Russia

Not Murmansk.

This is a hard one so I’ll say the building is by someone notable.

Looks a little dusty for murmansk

Ahmedabad? Probably a bit of a wildly wrong random guess here, but that is where google image search algorithm sent me and it looks a *bit* architecturally similar to a part of the business school there!

Correct! It’s the student dorm by Louis Kahn.

bloody hell!

god dammit

i was about to guess chandigarh, india

it's a beautiful building.

i don't actually understand how you guys do this.

no point asking me it's first one I've ever got right.

Is that where Bin Laden got his?

Oh, that was the curiously named Abbottabad!

I was going to say: that looks like a Kahn building, and it looks like a university campus.

https://i.postimg.cc/g0YnL2KC/ltg.jpg

monday

Boston? Somewhere on the T I should think.

it's definitely some sort of subway wayfinding graphic decal on the entry doors to the installation on the right and it looks T-ish to me

Looks like it could be almost any American city that has some underground rail near a big parking garage, ie. most of them.

Multiple pedestrian signals + protected cycling infrastructure makes me think this is not just *any* American city (though the 9 story parking garage next to the transit center seems kinda suburban or urban-suburban?)

Boston?

That’s what I said!

Going a very different direction here but...

Taipei City?

Leeds

that's a us no parking sign. looks like forsythia about to bloom - google says it's in growing zones 5-9, doesn't narrow it down too much except it's not the far north. something about the size and spacing of the buildings suggests not-the-east-coast to me. brown leaves in the gutters. could be anywhere. columbus? indianapolis? omaha?

There is something odd about the bike lane stencil, notably the wheels.

Alaska?

My only clue was that the silver car’s license plate could be New York

so little to go on here, but the sign in front of the blue pole looks pretty distinctive

I don't think I'm right, but this reminds me of when I was in Baltimore.

There's a blue A on those doors. Those bike stencils are definitely in use in California, probably elsewhere too though.

stamford, connecticut

the walk/don't walk lights are distinct.

https://i.postimg.cc/WbPLD4RN/Screenshot-2021-03-23-at-20-45-12.png

Alternate view

Buffalo

hole in one

Yes!

Finally. I just visited for the first time in February.

you aren't allowed to start swaggering till you nail an obscure one that isn't in your own country 😉

This is my proudest day on ilx

Lol

i don't actually understand how you guys do this.

In this case, I recently saw that building in person and remembered it. Sometimes it seems people use different techniques than this.

that's not forsythia, it's a tree :|

did you have any good buffalo wings there treeship?

In this case, I recently saw that building in person and remembered it.

I misread this as you recognized a person outside the building

I had good buffalo wings, thanks map. There are great breweries in buffalo too—my favorite was called the big ditch brewing company.

I wanted to go to the albright knox museum but alas covid