The productions for Hidden Figures and First Man used Emory’s Briarcliff Campus to double as 1960s-era NASA control rooms and offices. “And the building’s interiors are so varied you can shoot a number of scenes right next to each other and they’ll look like they’ve been filmed at completely different locations.” “I had a production designer once refer to Building A as an exoskeleton that’s perfect for making it into just about any kind of institutional setting they need-from a bustling hospital to a sedate bank lobby to a nondescript government office,” says Denise Chandler, head of film production management for Emory.
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It’s no wonder why movie and TV productions hold the location in such high demand. If that weren’t enough, Building A’s labyrinthian underground tunnels and eldritch elevators help Stranger Things achieve its creepy, Netherworldly vibes. Today, it’s a mostly empty, five-story complex filled with vacant offices, lobbies, conference rooms, auditoriums, and lab and clinical spaces. Erected in the 1960s in the brutalist architecture style-a showcase of concrete, steel, and glass-it was originally used as a mental health treatment facility before being purchased by the university decades later.
In real life, however, the Hawkins Lab is simply an old academic building-Building A, to be exact, located on Emory University’s Briarcliff Campus. Not only is this edifice of elemental evil home to the unspeakable experiments performed on the show’s Eggo-loving protagonist Eleven, but it’s also a portal to the malevolent Upside Down-a dark mirror world whose creatures terrorize the sci-fi show’s scrappy band of young heroes. I n the Netflix TV series Stranger Things, few sights elicit shudders from viewers more than the foreboding presence of the Hawkins National Laboratory.
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