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Interior shots of the Bradbury Building

Left: Location scouting turned up these photographs of the interior of the Bradbury Building. This structure is architecturally renowned for its masses of ironwork, open staircases and elevators.

 

We had been searching for locations for a building. We wanted to go on location to an old, decrepit building and take a suite of rooms and use that as Sebastian's apartment. One day we were downtown Los Angeles looking at a possible location, and I took a stroll across the street with Ridley and a few other people and Ridley took a look inside the beautiful Bradbury Building. What we did to that building you wouldn't believe. On a superficial level we trashed it with high-tech, then filled it with smoke on the inside and shot it at night. We also added a canopy with big columns to make it look like it was an old apartment building. All of a sudden, we had a very Gothic, eerie environment.
- LAWRENCE G. PAULL

 

Below Left: The ironwork staircases identify this Sherman Labby storyboard as the Bradbury Building.

Below: Syd Mead's early design concept for Deckard's gun.

Storyboard of Deckard climbing the stairs at the Bradbury

Syd Mead's early design concept for Deckard's gun

 

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