The Lumon building was originally a completely different look

Lumon building in the middle Dan Erickson’s Dystopia Sci-Fi “Severance” series It is actually Bell Labs Holmdel complex in Holmdel, New Jersey. The complex, which was designed by the architecture engineer, was supposed to be a friendly space for workers, full of broad corridors and broad stairs, which are aimed at using it in long and joint joint working sessions with the transfer of employees from one laboratory to another. However, the matter ended with monotheism, and Bell Labs employees complained that the matter took forever wandering around the building, and that the building seemed sterile and unided.

Of course, it was large, uncomfortable, ideal for a dark TV series such as “Severance”, so the Holmde complex was happily used. The building has been used by the city of Holmdel as a community center since 2006, and the owner of the building has made money on the side that he rented in movies and television constructions. The building is currently owned by a man named Ralph Zucker, CEO of a company called Someress Development. He paid $ 27 million to the building in 2013 and paid an additional $ 273 million to widespread renovations. Zucker said in an interview with “Make it” It maintains the original concrete of the building, making sure that Sarinin’s designs are not changed too much. It was a lucky decision, as it caught the attention of the “Severance” scouts. “Stark and Soulles” has become the aesthetic of Lumon Industries.

But it turned out that this was not the way Ericsson was originally written by Lomon’s building when the series was first imagining. On his mind, the Lumon building was not supposed to be anything special. I liked the idea that Lumon is working from a completely incomplete offices building, as one may see in the movie “Office Space”. In an interview with diverseBen Steller’s CEO, “Severance” Ben Steller indicated that it was his idea to convert Lumon into something more inspiring.

In a variety of article, he explained that Ericsson, a Newbi TV at the time, was very accurate in his conception of “Severance”. He and Bin Steller collected large guiding books, full of physical architecture and reference images of movies and other TV programs. Steller recalled the idea of ​​Ericsson that Lomon works, in his words, “World Office Building” in the 1990s.

The lumon building office, where a lot of “Severance” is a synthetic group, which carries a reactionary aesthetic in the 1960s. Carpets are green shades that fell in 1968, and all computers are all large plastic CRT boxes with chunky keyboards. There are no mobile phones, no touch screens, and there are no slim laptops. In a strange way, Lomon is immortal. It is clear that this reactionary horse of the sixties/eighties of the last century was the contribution of Steller. If the world of “Severance” is full of strange techniques in the brain, it is logical that this is logical in sports.

It is not that “Severance” will not work in the “office space” environment of the environment. Several world library buildings in the 1990s feel a train from the outside world, such as Lumon. Also, if the building was more familiar with viewers, the strange horror that resembles the sect and sub -lines that cannot be explained by “Severance” would have felt that many strange and more nightmare.

Of course, Jeremy Hind, the production designer, won prizes, and his record of Amy’s nomination, so the science fiction approach in Steller was ultimately effective. In fact, the strange corridors were inspired by the “Gharibi” group from Ridley Scott from 1979. Ericsson’s original vision was interesting to see.