Detroit Disassembled

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Motor City is Burning

Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit (2010)

The Andromeda Strain

Each floor of the bunker is a different colour, intended to reflect different psychological states. And matching paper uniforms.

Brasilia

Subterra

Decommissioned Atlas E missile base in Kansas.

 See also:

• Subterra Castle: Missile Silo Home, RoadsideAmerica.com
• 20th Century Castles, LLC

Fail-Safe

Almost entirely set inside an imagined presidential bunker, Fail-Safe (1964), along with Dr Strangelove (1964), established the subterranean control centre as the decisive absent presence of Cold War spatial politics.

Ken Adam

• Horatia Harrod, 'Ken Adam: The Man who Drew the Cold War,' The Telegraph, 28 Sep 2008.
• Piece on Ken Adam from The Journal of Geebird&Bamby Co.
• Frieze review of the 2000 Ken Adams exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Issue 51 March-April 2000.
• Tim Noakes, 'Ken Adam; Drawn to the Movies,' socialsterotype.com, 2008.
• BBC audiovisual slideshow on Ken Adam: 'Designing for 007'.