Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[dirkomatic]

Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

[Andres Falconer]

São Paulo is both the name of a state and of a city in the state (like NY, NY). The state is correct. The city isn't.

 

[dirkomatic]

Franca, Brazil

 

[DBhomebrew]

There have been a few and forecasts for many more through that whole region. This one looks like Catanduva.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Franca, Brazil

All photo credits mention Franca, though indeed these events reminiscent of the Great Depression Dust Bowl have been taking place thought central and southern Brazil. Quite unprecedented, and likely linked to deforestation and unsound agroindustrial practices, producing ever growing amounts of cane sugar and alcohol, and the soybeans that feed livestock

@dirkomatic got this one

 

[dirkomatic]

Next up:

 

[Andres Falconer]

Googling "park with bells in columns" suggests this is the Carillion, in Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Nashville, Tennessee. Who knew?

 

[dirkomatic]

Great job, @Andres Falconer!

I certainly didn't know about them before I found the pic...

You're up.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I didn't either. They resembled something vaguely fascistic. It appears the 95 bells represent each of the state's counties, as well as its musical legacy.

I'll come up with something, soon.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Great puzzle pic, @dirkomatic

 

[dirkomatic]

Great puzzle pic, @dirkomatic

Thanks! I'm glad it didn't take too long to solve this time

 

[Andres Falconer]

Speaking of vaguely fascistic architecture…

 

[duncan.brown]

That's the Argentinian national anthem carved into the top of a brutalist structure, so I'm going Rosario, Argentina.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Indeed, @duncan.brown. And this isn’t even the first obelisk in Argentina posted recently in this group. Another angle, a bit more dramatic:

 

[Andres Falconer]

To be fair, this is not brutalist architecture and it would be incorrect to call it fascist, though the style known as Stripped Classicism was a favorite of the Nazis, Fascist Italy and was also used by many democratic governments for public building.

Of course I did not know any of this before reading about it just now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripped_Classicism

 

[duncan.brown]

@Andres Falconer ah, yes, of course! Brutalism emerged in England in the 1950s. The Argentina's National Flag Museum was commissioned in 1944 and completed in the 50s and is definitely stripped classicism. My great uncle is an expert in Le Corbusier, so please don't tell him I messed that one up!

OK, here's easy one:

 

[Andres Falconer]

This one has got to be taken from the hills behind Berkeley, CA.

I recently posted a picture of a bridge just like one of those.

 

[duncan.brown]

Yes, San Fransisco from Berkeley, CA. From a trip to Cal in 2018.

Around the time, one of my former students was applying for a government job that required Q clearance, so the FBI wanted to interview me. I told them that I would be out of town and visiting Berkeley. They replied "We're the FBI. We can meet you wherever." I ended up talking to the FBI agent on the roof of the astronomy department. It felt very X Files.

@Andres Falconer you're up again.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ping… pong

 

[Pkrd]

The bridge from Copenhagen Denmark across to Malmo, Sweden?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Right continent. Wrong countries. Neither Denmark nor Sweden.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Vasco Da gama Bridge,Lisbon, Portugal

 

[Andres Falconer]

There you go, @D.B.Moody

I’m predictable. I give a bridge in Portugal, you give me a bridge in S. Francisco, I give you a back another bridge in Portugal.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Sticking with bridges, but this is not your usual picture of this bridge. This was taken during the flood of 1993:

 

[DBhomebrew]

Eads Bridge, St. Louis

World's first steel truss bridge built in the late 1860s. Technology figured out here was used a few years later on the Brooklyn Bridge.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Eads Bridge it is. The picture shows that the road under the railroad tracks should have 12 feet 2 inches of clearance. The high point of the flood (49.6 feet, almost 20 feet above "flood stage") was a bit after the first picture and the tracks were flooded too:

You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Keeping to bridges, not my photo...

 

[MaxStout]

Just taking a stab at it...somewhere on the Erie Canal?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Just taking a stab at it...somewhere on the Erie Canal?

Not NY, not a canal

 

[dirkomatic]

Looks older to me... Seems like somewhere in England, but maybe not