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> Reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner. Reminds me of the building Tyrell and Elliot look at in Mr Robot, the "belly of the beast" bui
by dom0 10y ago
> Reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner.
Reminds me of the building Tyrell and Elliot look at in Mr Robot, the "belly of the beast" building. Maybe that's because the two are the same building :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
> As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the average floor height is 18 feet (5.5 meters), considerably taller than in an average high-rise. The floors are also unusually strong, designed to carry 200 to 300 pound per square foot (10–15 kPa) live loads.
Good conditions to retrofit a data/processing center
The description of the building and it's brutalist architecture are also remniscient of the machine building described in The Difference Engine (Gibson).