From Double Indemnity to Blade Runner, LA's Bradbury Building forms the quintessential film noir backdrop. There used to be a sign on the blank wall neighbouring Los Angeles' Bradbury Building that read "CANADA". When it appeared in Blade Runner in 1981, the CA had been removed leaving the word NADA. Very dark. Very noir. Very existential.
The Bradbury Building has become the home of a certain kind of doomed detective, the amateur up against it, against time. "What seems to be the problem?" asks corporate megalomaniac Tyrell in Blade Ranner. "Death" answers Batty, Rutger Hauer's deranged killer cyborg...