Los Angeles’ Bradbury Building in Blade Runner. Gateshead’s Trinity Square car park in Get Carter. That creepy modernist house in Exhibition. Architecture in film can play a significant role, from establishing a time period to powerfully evoking an atmosphere or even shaping the narrative.
We asked you for your favourite examples of urban architecture in film, and you shared silver screen buildings from Paris to Kuala Lumpur (via New York, of course, the home to so many famous movies – and so much famous architecture).
Edinburgh, UK
Trainspotting - The Black Bull
Anyone who has ever watched Trainspotting will have seen the infamous Black Bull Tavern sat at the top of Leith Walk.
Paris, France
Samaritaine Building & Pont Neuf, Bourne Identity (2002)
Bourne sets up a meeting on the bridge but watches from the roof of the Samaritaine. The Pont Neuf also featured in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
Nottingham, UK
This is England....
Not all film buildings are what they purport to be. This is the shop that was used during filming in Shane Meadow's, 'This is England' back in 2005-2006. Its located in Bramcote, in the pleasant suburban outskirts of Nottingham. In the film Mr Sandhu, the Indian shopkeeper was subject to racist antoagonism by Shaun and the skinhead gang.
In real life, the shop closed down a few years later, became a hairdressers in the recent past...(2013), then reverted back to a convenience store during 2014.....but currently no longer in use...maybe just biding its time until it's used as a film set again !
San Rafael, USA
GATTACA Corporation - Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
This was the location of the sinister "Gattaca Corporation", from the Sci Fi film "GATTACA". The building was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and is located in Marin County, California.
London, UK
Thamesmead Estate, London
This photo was taken from the board walk from the famous scene in A Clockwork Orange, where Alex DeLarge cuts and throws his droogs into the lake for disagreeing with him
Melbourne, Australia
The Halls of Justice. Melbourne, Australia.
From the first Mad Max film. Originally the Spotswood Pumping Station, it is now Scienceworks, part of Melbourne Museum.
Gateshead, UK
Get Carter car park prior to demolition
Gateshead's Trinity Square shopping centre car park made famous in the 1971 film 'Get Carter'. An example of 1960s brutalist concrete architecture by Owen Luder it is pictured here on July 31st 2010 prepared for demolition.
New York, USA
Katzs Delicatessen - When Harry Met Sally
Katzs Delicatessen in New York City is the setting of "that" scene in When Harry Met Sally. "I'll have what she's having". I did. Great advice, as this place serves the best pastrami sandwiches anywhere in the world.
Chrysler Building, Armageddon (1998)
The Chrysler Building in New York is destroyed by a meteor in Armageddon (1998). It's famous eagle gargoyles are the first to be hit before then the rest of the building is destroyed.
Home Alone 2 - The Plaza Hotel, NYS
My 6 yr old son obviously admires the Home Alone films (1 & 2) and here he is standing outside the Plaza where that rapscallion (and wannabe rock star) Macaulay Culkin caused uproar with the most famous of concierge's - Tim Curry!
This was taken in February of this year, when it was around -10 degrees C - not at all frosty!
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
Featured in the movie Entrapment
Berlin, Germany
The Lives of Others
Used as one of the main locations in the 2006 German film "The Lives of Others" about East Berlin Stasi agents spying on a playwright.
This block of flat's was used for the external shots of the main character's apartment.
