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It’s one of those wonderful discrepancies that happens when a site has to wait a year or so between visits from the Google StreetView photo-harvesters.

An office tower in Hoofddorp, The Netherlands, plays “now you see it, now you don’t” on StreetView, depending on your viewing location.

At a distance, the Irdeto tower looks like this:

Hoofddorp office tower

Move just a little closer for the older image:

Hoofddorp office tower missing

A hat-tip to the reader that tipped us off, how noted that “David Blane can't do this as convincingly in broad daylight.” ®

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