Mystery City

[Dozer]

Does anyone know anything about where this picture was taken?

[convulso]

looks like the 333 wacker drive building in chicago. just a guess.

[dimebag1980]

Chicago would also be one of my guesses, followed by suburban Dallas or Houston.

[Dozer]

Chicago would also be one of my guesses, followed by suburban Dallas or Houston.

[dimebag1980]

It was my guess as well, but having been there, I know there are no highways that run along the front of the building like this - there is a river. That's what threw me. And the pedestrian bridge.

[GRDadof3]

That's definitely not Chicago or its suburbs. I looked at downtown Houston and Dallas photos and didn't see a grouping of rounded office buildings like this either. It could very well be a city in China or Japan. The highway running between the buildings does give it a "suburban U.S. office complex" look to it though. Very interesting. Los Angeles, not downtown, but Century City or something?

I was going to say Boston or Philly, but I don't think they have a big collection of rounded glass skyscrapers like that (?) Minneapolis?

Where did you find it Dozer?

[Frankie811]

That building on the left looks an awful lot like a building in Hartford.

[Frankie811]

That building on the left looks an awful lot like a building in Hartford.

[GRDadof3]

This photo is from the Hartford forum photo thread.

Same building, no?

[tamias6]

I'm going to say Los Angeles. The city and metro have clusters of large skyscrapers spread through out the area. Also looking at pictures of the LA metro area, I have seen Highways running through a cluster of skyscrapers.

[Mobuchu]

If you look there's also a road going under the building to the right. Bottom right corner. My guess would be an asian city.

[Dozer]

If you look there's also a road going under the building to the right. Bottom right corner. My guess would be an asian city.

[bobby255BR]

Whatever it is, it looks to be one awesome city.

[GRDadof3]

I found it being used as a background on a MySpace profile, and it really piqued my curiosity. I think it may be a German city actually. Asian, maybe, but in the glass you can see some letters being reflected, and they don't look Asian.

I pride myself on my ability to recognize a city, but this one is driving me absolutely nuts.

[nashscan]

I need closure on this.

[dgreco]

It almost looked fake to me, but the skybridge is awesome. Where was the picture found?

[GRDadof3]

Got it! It's the financial/business district in Paris around the La Defense de Paris statue.

More at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense

And the site where I first found it, about 2/3's of the way down:

http://www.ketchum.org/bridges.html

Apparently the bridge is called the "Japan Bridge". Used the google keywords "urban pedestrian bridge" to find it, second page:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&a...G=Search+Images

Woot!

[Dozer]

Got it! It's the financial/business district in Paris around the La Defense de Paris statue.

More at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense

And the site where I first found it, about 2/3's of the way down:

http://www.ketchum.org/bridges.html

Apparently the bridge is called the "Japan Bridge". Used the google keywords "urban pedestrian bridge" to find it, second page:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&a...G=Search+Images

Woot!

[GRDadof3]

You are awesome!!! Thank you so much... how did you ever find it?? What did you use as search queries? Was it just chance you came accross it?

[Mith242]

Got it! It's the financial/business district in Paris around the La Defense de Paris statue.

More at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_D%C3%A9fense

And the site where I first found it, about 2/3's of the way down:

http://www.ketchum.org/bridges.html

Apparently the bridge is called the "Japan Bridge". Used the google keywords "urban pedestrian bridge" to find it, second page:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&a...G=Search+Images

Woot!

[Frankie811]

Well that was fun and interesting. Perhaps someone else has a mystery photo out there of a city that they can't recognize. Perhaps we can do this on a weekly basis.

[Guest]

I was sure this pic was CG good find.

[Dozer]

Well that was fun and interesting. Perhaps someone else has a mystery photo out there of a city that they can't recognize. Perhaps we can do this on a weekly basis.