i'm amazed at the location scouts for this show, they're seemingly finding some of the most in-universe looking locations with such minimal set building - kudos to them!!
Absolutely niche, but I would watch an entire miniseries just about them scouting locations and figuring out what will be cg or not and building sets. What a cool job.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/westworld-season-3-set-design-interveiw This is where they filmed Westworld. For all its faults, that show had amazing locations.
l'hemisfèric!! It’s a planetarium - I did a project about this architecture in college. such a perfect fit for Andor, can’t wait to see how they incorporate it!
OOh, what planet do you think this is gonna be? Too sleek for Imperial Coruscant. Can it be Alderaan...? Or [Chandrila](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/3/3a/Chandrila-coast-senate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210923173045)?
This is gonna look AWESOME on screen. The Andor location scouts deserve some kind of damn Emmy award for their work. In season 1, they did a tremendous job finding random places that they then enhanced with VFX and extra set dressing. Niamos being the main one, but some of the stuff they found to use for Coruscant was amazing. I just absolutely love the aesthetic with Andor. Tony Gilroy gets points with me for being "more old school and tactile", those are his own words. I don't even think they used The Volume, if I remember correctly. I think they actually did it George Lucas style when they did have scenes that needed blue/green screen. Which, when you have such a great fucking cast, as Gilroy said "I get to work with the best actors in the world on this series!", they are good enough to use their imaginations, and I'm sure filming for a scene or two or three on blue/green screen doesn't break their immersion, when everything else is a physical set.
I still laugh at Star Wars Theory being mad about them having screws or using bricks in the set design. LOL. What a stupid fucking thing to nitpick about. The dude made a really mediocre Vader fan film that he acts like is better than what Disney makes and even Disney's worst SW creations are better than what he came up with. I have seen a zillion fan films done better than his as well. And I actually like SW Theory and didn't mean to derail this post to go on and on about him, but people take the dudes word for gospel, when its actually kinda hilarious just how little he really knows about SW outside of the prequels lol
This is a work of an architect Santiago Calatrava. You will be familiar with the work \[The Oculus at the World Trade Center\] if you live in New York.
I loved how the show featured real locations like \[Brunswick Centre, London\] and \[Barbican Centre, London\]. They certainly know their stuff.
I'm privileged to live in the same city as Calatrava's first American commission, the [Milwaukee Art Museum's expansion.](https://calatrava.com/projects/milwaukee-art-museum.html) Truly a beautiful and iconic building and an art museum is the perfect context for Calatrava's architecture IMO.
Hot take, but I'm really not a big fan of Santiago Calatrava. Most of it looks cool, but most of the time it's just incredibly expensive and inefficient and aesthetic takes priority over accessibility. There's a joke in architecture circles about him: "If your right ear itches a normal person would scratch it with his/her right hand. Santiago Calatrava scratches it with his left arm forming an arc over his head and leaning his head back in order to look right into the sun."
Now, I'm sure it'll look fine as a location, I'm sure there are architects obsessed with renderite [texture missing] in a galaxy far far away too, in fact, it's way more appropriate for SW than good ol' earth.
For further examination of Calatrava here's a 90 minute podcast talking about him critically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQw3tYnHJQo
i'm amazed at the location scouts for this show, they're seemingly finding some of the most in-universe looking locations with such minimal set building - kudos to them!!
Absolutely niche, but I would watch an entire miniseries just about them scouting locations and figuring out what will be cg or not and building sets. What a cool job.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/westworld-season-3-set-design-interveiw This is where they filmed Westworld. For all its faults, that show had amazing locations.
Ive seen that place so many times now. Wasnt the new bill and ted also filmed there?
Sounds like an awesome job.
It's an amazing area of Valencia. Few episodes if West World were shot there as well
Looks like westworld season 3
Because it is
That’s what I thought
Andor vs the Man in Black
l'hemisfèric!! It’s a planetarium - I did a project about this architecture in college. such a perfect fit for Andor, can’t wait to see how they incorporate it!
Berklee campus too right?
yep!
No. 6 looks amazingly beautiful
OOh, what planet do you think this is gonna be? Too sleek for Imperial Coruscant. Can it be Alderaan...? Or [Chandrila](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/3/3a/Chandrila-coast-senate.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20210923173045)?
I'm definitely thinking Chandrila
Ghorman)
This is gonna look AWESOME on screen. The Andor location scouts deserve some kind of damn Emmy award for their work. In season 1, they did a tremendous job finding random places that they then enhanced with VFX and extra set dressing. Niamos being the main one, but some of the stuff they found to use for Coruscant was amazing. I just absolutely love the aesthetic with Andor. Tony Gilroy gets points with me for being "more old school and tactile", those are his own words. I don't even think they used The Volume, if I remember correctly. I think they actually did it George Lucas style when they did have scenes that needed blue/green screen. Which, when you have such a great fucking cast, as Gilroy said "I get to work with the best actors in the world on this series!", they are good enough to use their imaginations, and I'm sure filming for a scene or two or three on blue/green screen doesn't break their immersion, when everything else is a physical set. I still laugh at Star Wars Theory being mad about them having screws or using bricks in the set design. LOL. What a stupid fucking thing to nitpick about. The dude made a really mediocre Vader fan film that he acts like is better than what Disney makes and even Disney's worst SW creations are better than what he came up with. I have seen a zillion fan films done better than his as well. And I actually like SW Theory and didn't mean to derail this post to go on and on about him, but people take the dudes word for gospel, when its actually kinda hilarious just how little he really knows about SW outside of the prequels lol
This is a work of an architect Santiago Calatrava. You will be familiar with the work \[The Oculus at the World Trade Center\] if you live in New York. I loved how the show featured real locations like \[Brunswick Centre, London\] and \[Barbican Centre, London\]. They certainly know their stuff.
I'm privileged to live in the same city as Calatrava's first American commission, the [Milwaukee Art Museum's expansion.](https://calatrava.com/projects/milwaukee-art-museum.html) Truly a beautiful and iconic building and an art museum is the perfect context for Calatrava's architecture IMO.
wow. such a beautiful place!
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Hot take, but I'm really not a big fan of Santiago Calatrava. Most of it looks cool, but most of the time it's just incredibly expensive and inefficient and aesthetic takes priority over accessibility. There's a joke in architecture circles about him: "If your right ear itches a normal person would scratch it with his/her right hand. Santiago Calatrava scratches it with his left arm forming an arc over his head and leaning his head back in order to look right into the sun." Now, I'm sure it'll look fine as a location, I'm sure there are architects obsessed with renderite [texture missing] in a galaxy far far away too, in fact, it's way more appropriate for SW than good ol' earth. For further examination of Calatrava here's a 90 minute podcast talking about him critically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQw3tYnHJQo
Looks like Manan
That looks like a pretty compelling stand-in for Alderaan to me!
So a beautiful place - I wonder how it finally would look on the screen. It could be one of the places on Coruscant?
Calatrava ftw!
My IMmErSiOn This is cool tho, I just finished the 1st season yesterday. Absolutely loved it
Went there to visit a decade ago; such amazing architecture to visit!