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The real building is the Bonaventure Hotel, featured in the opening act of the movie where Deckard, our android-hunting mercenary protagonist, has a run in with a cop.Ī glass-and steel-monolith built in 1976 is instrumental in establishing the futuristic dystopian mood of the film. Two interesting aesthetics are at work in this film, present in one real building and one fictional one. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has a pretty star-studded cast of architectural cameos – including historical Los Angeles icons such as the Bradbury Building, Union Station and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House. Murphy & Associates and constructed in 1975, this building became the poster child for sinister government architecture (and the fact that the FBI was housed inside didn’t help this perception much.) The building’s aesthetic became synonymous with surveillance and policing in general - for a movie about a rogue cyborg cop, choosing that aesthetic was basically a no-brainer. Edgar Hoover FBI Building photo by I, Aude (CC BY-SA 3.0)ĭesigned by Charles F. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC: J. Perhaps the most famous such structure of the period is the J. During the 70s especially, some of the most notorious government buildings were constructed in this style, giving bureaucracy an unintentionally sinister air. The answer comes from the fact that Brutalism was an extremely popular architectural style for government buildings in the 60s and 70s - it was inexpensive to build while still appearing Modernist.
Why use Dallas City Hall for the headquarters of an evil corporation who rules everything with an iron fist? The term Brutalism comes from the French beton brut meaning raw concrete. Dallas City Hall photo by Kent Wang (CC BY-SA 2.0)ĭallas City Hall was built in 1978 and is an example of Brutalism, a modern architecture movement lasting from around 1950 to 1980 that focuses on the sculptural use of bare concrete. Set in a dystopian future where the Omni Consumer Products corporation controls the city of Detroit, the 80s film features at the heart of the evil corporation a Late Modern building by I.M.
Though the story of Robocop takes place in futuristic Detroit, the film was shot exclusively in Dallas, Texas.
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