BLADE RUNNER RUNNING THROUGH BRADBURY BUILDING

I was searching 'cyberpunk' for my research, to respond to Barbican's context and condition. Then there was one picture of very not futuristic building, but somehow it interested me a lot in same way that I was interested in Barbican.
The Bradbury Building is and architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California. The building was built in 1893 and is located in 304 South Broadway (at 3rd Street) in downtown.

George Wyman, who designed this Bradbury Building, was especially influenced in constructing building by the 1887 science fiction book Looking Backwards by Edward Bellamy, which described an utopian society. 

In Bellamy's book, the average commercial building was described as a "vast hall full of light, received not alone from the windows on all sides, but from the dome, the point of which was a hundred feet above ... The walls and ceiling were frescoed in mellow tints, calculated to soften without absorbing the light which flooded the interior." This description greatly influenced the Bradbury Building.

The Bradbury Building is featured prominently as the setting in a wide range of popular media—particularly in the science fiction genre - including films, television, literature, and music videos. Most notably, the building is the setting for both the climactic rooftop scene of the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner as well as the set of the character J. F. Sebastian's apartment in which much of the film's story unfolds.