I’ll admit right off the bat that this is not strictly an architecture post; it’s technically a moment of retro 70s nostalgia. The 1976 movie Logan’s Run, a dark sci-fi dystopia about escape from a domed post-apocalyptic society which euthanizes its citizens at age 30, completely occupied my late childhood imagination. The movie was shot entirely in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas and most of the film’s key action takes place in the “Great Hall,” which turns out to be the fairly bizarre and also recently demolished Dallas Market Center Apparel Mart, not a great piece of architecture but one that did conveniently feature a quasi-sci-fi interior. If someone has the correct terminology for this style of interior, please advise – my guess is 60s mall rendition of Corbusier, Notre Dame du Haut era. The novel the film is based on was written at the height of  60s youth culture and student unrest, and it was explicitly written with a screenplay in mind. Though it was published in 1967, like Dune the process of turning the novel into a film was fraught with problems, and by the time the film was made, the decor and costumes were reflecting the 70s. The film’s commentaries on totalitarianism, a Brave New World-style docile populace distracted by pleasures, and youth-oriented culture are pretty heavy-handed, but I loved it when I saw it around age 12, too young to notice how wooden Michael York’s acting was but not young enough to avoid total infatuation.

Above, scenes from the film. Below, the mart as it was in reality and then during its demolition. Its destruction is strangely fitting considering the film’s ending. Oddly, the building is part of the vast trade complex JFK was headed for when he was assassinated – he was on his way to a luncheon for 2400 people, in a setup very similar to the one shown below. This particular part of the complex, however, was built a year later, in 1964.

All photos and information in this post are from racprops, aintitcool and snowcrest. The film’s “Love Shop” (image at top, with the odd, oozing brown leather seating, and the mall shot with somewhat anatomical neon sign) was the Oz Restaurant/Nightclub in Dallas. Other locations: Sandman HQ was Zales’ International Headquarters; the Sandman gym was the Arlington Health Center and the living units were the Burton Park Building. The video below was a long promotional trailer for the film intended as a preview for theatre owners, and it gives a sense of the futuristic 70s sets and costumes.

I’m not sure where the strange compulsion to assemble this inventory comes from but it’s hard to stop, especially when people start adding their suggestions to the list. The house above was suggested by swedestralian. It’s by architect Jeff Kovel of Skylab Architecture for Nike executive John Hoke and his family and appeared in the 2008 film Twilight.  swedestralian also suggested The Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry, below, which as everybody has probably noticed made a key appearance in 2008’s Get Smart:

The climax of the atrocious Get Smart unfolds here, and while I’m not a huge fan of this building, I can only imagine the ambivalence Gehry must have felt if he saw the movie.

The much-photographed Villa Malaparte by Adalberto Libera, on the island of Capri, appeared in Godard’s 1963 film Le Mépris (Contempt). That’s Brigitte Bardot on the roof.

The Guggenheim Museum (New York), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959, appeared in 2009’s The International. It was suggested by archdaily via twitter, who also suggested the Mies van der Rohe towers in Chicago, which appeared in Batman. I haven’t seen the new Batman movie, but boerhaus says that the two Chicago Mies vander Rohe buildings in the film are the IBM Plaza (1973), which was the site of the Wayne Enterprises Boardroom, Harvey Dent’s office, the Mayor’s office and the Police Commissioner’s office, and One Illinois Center (1970), which became the main living area of Bruce Wayne’s new penthouse. The building at center below is One Illinois Center, by photographer Lee Bey.

IBM Plaza, below.

Feel free to send in your suggestions. Unless otherwise noted all photos are from Flickr, with the exception of the shots of Villa Malaparte from Wikipedia.