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This is the Elrod House, designed by John Lautner in Palm Springs, California in 1968. In the film, the concrete-domed home serves as Willard Whyte’s luxurious mansion.
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You down with OCP?
It’s Dallas City Hall, designed by I.M. Pei in 1978. In Robocop, this was the HQ of Omni Consumer Productions (OCP). Levels were digitally imposed to make the structure look significantly taller than in real life.
But she seemed so sweet!
This is Norway’s Juvet Landscape Hotel, built in 2010. But you might know it better as social media magnate Nathan Bateman’s isolated, high-tech, futuristic home from Ex Machina.
Elon Musk’s inspiration for the Cybertruck.
The Ennis House was built in Los Angeles by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1924. The exterior of The Ennis House served as Rick Deckhard’s apartment in Blade Runner.
The kitchen is strictly garlic-free.
The Hoke House, a.k.a. the Cullen family treehouse, was built in Portland, Oregon by Skylab Architecture and completed in 2012.
Where Uma met Ethan.
The Marin County Civic Center was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, constructed in 1960 after his death. Various areas of the Civic Center were used to film Gattaca.
An American director’s fashionable debut.
The J.W. Schaffer House in Glendale, California was designed by Wright protégée John Lautner in 1949. In A Single Man, this mid-century modern home was used as George’s private estate amongst the trees.
Knowing everything is dangerous.
This is the Emerson College Los Angeles Center, designed by Morphosis in 2014. It’s home to the Boston school’s Hollywood program, and it took center stage in The Circle as the HQ for a mega-powerful tech company.
Also known as Fort Wayne.
Nottingham’s Wollaton Hall is believed to have been designed by Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson in 1580. In The Dark Knight Rises, it was the rebuilt Wayne Manor, and later an orphanage.
R.I.P. Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.
Suburban Chicago’s Ben Rose House was designed by A. James Speyer, a student of modernist legend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in 1953. In Bueller, it’s known as Cameron’s house and the site of the film’s Ferrari-cide.
A direct homage to Alfred Hitchcock.
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The Chemosphere, also designed by Lautner, was completed in 1960. Built on a stilt above a 45-degree slope in the Hollywood Hills, the home also inspired a set designed for 2000’s Charlie’s Angels.
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