In Reply to: Re: comics and arch....... scary buildings.... posted by Simple Simon on February 01, 2002 at 20:23:38:
The Flugelheim Museum, Gotham City
"all the buildings, except the Cathedral, are dwarfed by the geometric savagery of the Flugelheim Museum whose brutal exterior is more akin to locomotive design than an art gallery like the Guggenheim"
Anton Furst (Production Designer, Batman) regards it as "one of my most successful designs. I wanted the museum to be a surprise, a new, radical edifice which concealed an older building underneath. The radical broadstroke of the exterior conceals a style which borrows from Otto Wagner as well as Brownstone housing"
[Ref: Marriott, John, Batman: The Official Book of the Movie (London, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1989), p. 89]
--the image posted above is a sketch by Anton Furst--
:-)