Spot the High-Rise from a Bird's-Eye View

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Can you identify the high-rise and name its city from a Google Earth bird's-eye view screenshot?

The goal of this game is to have fun sharing and guessing distinctive high-rise buildings that stand out in their cities' skylines using Google Earth. It's a bird's-eye-view challenge where players look for clues by observing:

• The building's architecture: Chicago School, Neo-Gothic, Art Deco, Brutalist, Postmodern, International Style, and more.
• The surrounding urban fabric: Rooftops, street patterns, and vernacular architecture that hint at the local climate, culture, and region.
• The landscape and topography: Mountains, coastlines, rivers, plains, and other geographical features visible on the horizon.

Rules:

1. The first player to correctly identify both the high-rise and its city earns the right to post the next challenge (or may choose to pass their turn).
2. The featured high-rise must be a true building with at least 15 occupiable floors, such as an office, residential, hotel, or mixed-use tower. It should also be visually prominent within its city's skyline.
   1. Freestanding towers and non-building structures are not eligible. This includes broadcast and communications towers, church steeples, observation towers, landmarks (e.g. Eiffel Tower, Space Needle, CN Tower) and similar structures.
3. Every challenge must include the continental region or country as an initial clue, along with the screenshot.
   1. While challenging guesses can be rewarding, try to choose buildings that are reasonably recognizable. A short high-rise in an obscure location, a small city or a lesser-known region of the world can become a needle in a very large haystack, causing the game to stall and making it less enjoyable for everyone.

How to Play:

1. Open Google Earth in your web browser or desktop client and navigate to the high-rise you want to feature.
2. In View → Basemap Settings, select:
   • Type: Satellite
   • Details: Clean (no borders, labels, places, or roads)
3. Pan, zoom, and tilt the camera until the building is centered in a bird's-eye perspective (example here) that clearly shows:
   • the entire building,
   • its surrounding neighborhood, and
   • the horizon where the land meets the sky.
4. Capture a screenshot as a .jpg using Google Earth's Create Image tool or your preferred screenshot application (Greenshot, Snipping Tool, etc.).
5. Post the screenshot together with the continental region or country as the starting clue. You're also welcome to include additional hints or interesting facts about the building or its city to make the challenge even more engaging.

Example and First Guess Post:

Somewhere in North America: