I was told you to post this here by r/london. I'm on the 41st floor of my accom tower...

Its only 503ft/153m but its been an impressive art deco fixture in Chicago since 1929. Due to the black granite plus green and gold terra cotta and gold leaf and bronze trim, it stands out as one of those, "they don't build 'em like that anymore" buildings.

Height: 60 m (197 ft)
16-storeys
53 West Jackson Boulevard, in the Chicago Loop

From Wikipedia:
“The north half of the building was designed by the firm of Burnham & Root and built starting in 1891. At 215 feet (66 m), it is the tallest load-bearing brick or masonry building ever constructed. It also employed the first portal system of wind bracing in the United States. Its ornamented staircases represent the first structural use of aluminum in building construction.”

“When it was built, many critics called the building too extreme, and lacking in style. Others found in its lack of ornamentation the natural extension of its commercial purpose and an expression of modern business life. Early 20th-century European architects found inspiration in its attention to purpose and functional expression.”

Photo by ALEXANDER J.E. BRADLEY.

This building lowkey makes me dizzy

Photo by onas mer.

From the youtube Melbourne Spring 2025 https://youtu.be/pndw9fAovX8

First from the Devonshire St side with the red bike lane, ONE WAY sign, tree from Railway Station Central entrance with the T M L lights glowing, people with green bike then back again to the same corner with the people waiting at the lights

Same building, but you walked all around it. That's the city in real life from my eyes and circled it like you circle your Lego towers on the table, looking from every angle.

And you did it the walk before 7/11 coffee after watching the trams pass on Haymarket, L2 Randwick on George St past the Vietnamese restaurant past Market City and Mountbatten Hotel.

Height: 40 m (131 ft)
10-storeys

Height: 40 m (130 ft)
11-storeys

Height: Exact height unknown.
10-storeys

Height: 46 m (151 ft)
10-storeys

Height: 12-storeys
Exact height unknown.

Credit to all the photographers who took these amazin’ shots of the city skylines all across the US. Can’t wait for more foliage to come! I love Autumn!

That big empty white field in the first one, with the black building on the left and the red and white umbrellas far behind the barriers so I was up high there away from everyone. That’s the same kind of high terrace you described before the place where the public feels far away but also watches.

Then the second and third, that is our city. Sydney. All those glass towers stacked together, the one with the red stripe, the Sydney Tower Eye on the left in the third photo. From that railing with the long grass, looking down.