> Reminds me of the Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner.

Reminds me of the building Tyrell and Elliot look at in Mr Robot, the "belly of the beast" building. Maybe that's because the two are the same building :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

> As it was built to house telephone switching equipment, the average floor height is 18 feet (5.5 meters), considerably taller than in an average high-rise. The floors are also unusually strong, designed to carry 200 to 300 pound per square foot (10–15 kPa) live loads.

Good conditions to retrofit a data/processing center

The description of the building and it's brutalist architecture are also remniscient of the machine building described in The Difference Engine (Gibson).

That is the AT&T long lines building. It was built to handled telephone switches. Of course unlawful domestic surveillance happens there.

One of my personal favourites is the fancy bit of architecture hanging over the entry to the Family Court of Australia, Adelaide.

http://www.markforthandassociates.com.au/wp-content/uploads/...

As if that thing doesn't make you feel like The Government is observing your family life. Which, I guess, if you have reason to go there, it is.

Little off-topic, but I don't think I've seen a JPG that loads initially as low-res grayscale before the colour loads in before.

Thank you- I honestly thought I had (temporarily) lost my sanity for a split second when it flipped.

I hadn't seen that before either, and didn't see it in this image until I checked on my mobile where it loaded slower.

Nice observation.

There's a similarly-styled AT&T building in Seattle, near the Space Needle.