Vice City Arts Center

A stepped cultural complex lit green in the night overview, with Vice City Arts Center on a band under a glazed bridge at its right end and the opera house's lettering on its lower floors.

The building is a stepped complex of angular concrete masses, floodlit green-cyan, each terrace edged with a row of small lamps; the top block carries a glazed trapezoid skylight lit yellow from inside, with a band of red light along the roof edge behind it. The name is not across the frontage: it sits low and to the right, on a dark band under a glazed barrel-vaulted bridge, as Vice City Arts Center in a plain sans-serif with a tall V monogram in front of it. Measured on the master, its capitals stand eighteen pixels tall: every letter separates at one to one, and that is under this site’s floor of twenty for lettering, so the sighting records the name as under the floor. What that means for the name on this page is an open question, recorded rather than decided here.

On the lower floors, between the window bands, hang two banners: an orange one with a figure on it and a green one with lettering running vertically. The green banner’s words sit at this site’s floor and are recorded as unread on the opera house’s page, which also carries the relief lettering along the podium below them, GALINA BALLE and OPERA HO as far as it reads. Where the arts center ends and the opera house begins is not something the overview settles: the band with the name hangs at the right end of the same stepped complex.

It shares a plaza with The Sumerian and with the glazed concert hall beside it. Both are outside this crop and named on their own pages, and whether those two are one venue or two is an open question on the hall’s page. Named cultural buildings side by side is unusual for a Grand Theft Auto map.

The Palaestra Tower, a fluted lit drum over a painted podium, stands at the left edge of this crop, and all of them are lit in the same night overview, which places them among the buildings the city is meant to be recognised by.

How to recognise it

• Vice City Arts Center with a V monogram, on a dark band under a glazed barrel vault
• Stepped, faceted concrete masses lit green-cyan, with rows of lamps along the terraces
• A glazed trapezoid skylight lit yellow on the top block
• An orange and a green banner between the window bands of the lower floors
• Lit in the night overview

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the subject occupies 1804 by 928 of it. Also in it: a street sign for Palaestra Tower, Vice City, Sahara Arena, The Sumerian, a concert hall on the square, and the Galina opera house.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• Whether a name that separates at one to one but sits under the twenty-pixel floor can carry a page; the capitals measure eighteen pixels
• Whether the name covers the whole stepped complex, with the opera house inside it, or only the wing under the glazed bridge where the band hangs
• What the green banner says; its words sit at the reading floor
• Whether either building is enterable, and whether performances or exhibitions happen there
• Which district the plaza is in