Modern architecture to film in the United Kingdom
9 of them, 9 with a photo and 3 with practical details the location publishes itself. 2 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete.
Shooting in the United Kingdom pays back through the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC) (34%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Barbican Centre
Modern architecture
Brutalist arts complex of concrete terraces, lakeside walkways, a conservatory, foyers and concert halls, set inside the Barbican housing estate in the City.
Seen in: Andor, Slow Horses
Canary Wharf
Modern architecture
Privately managed estate of high rise offices, dock water, malls, roof gardens and underground service roads in east London, with an in house filming team.
Eden Project
Modern architecture
Environmental attraction built into a former china clay pit near St Austell, with two giant geodesic biome domes housing rainforest and Mediterranean planting.
Seen in: Die Another Day
Here East
Modern architecture
A converted Olympic press and broadcast centre beside the canal in Hackney Wick, now offices, television studios and workshop space.
Campus totals 1.2 million sq ft of flexible space; around 6,500 people work and study on site.
Museum of Liverpool
Modern architecture
Angular white waterfront museum on Liverpool's Pier Head, part of National Museums Liverpool's group of seven sites made available for commercial filming.
National Space Centre
Modern architecture
A space science museum in Leicester with a distinctive rocket tower, planetarium and exhibition halls, available for venue hire including production use.
Riverside Museum
Modern architecture
A Zaha Hadid designed transport museum where the Kelvin meets the Clyde in Glasgow, with a zigzag roofline, a recreated street and a tall ship moored outside.
Titanic Belfast
Modern architecture
A six floor angular aluminium clad museum on the Belfast slipway where the Titanic was built, with galleries and function spaces hired for events.
V&A Dundee
Modern architecture
Waterfront design museum on the Dundee riverside with a stacked-stone exterior by architect Kengo Kuma, opened in 2018 beside the historic ship RRS Discovery.
Modern architecture elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in the United Kingdom
- Theatres, arenas and venues 47
- Industrial and derelict locations 39
- Offices, schools and public buildings 31
- Transport and infrastructure 42
- Film studios and backlots 37
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 10
- Houses and apartments 33
- Hotels and interiors 22
- Bars, restaurants and shops 10
- Castles and estates 17
- Churches and monasteries 13
- Villages and countryside 15
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