Don’t miss.Ĭalatrava’s designs were the inspiration for the look of the sets built for the planet Xandar in Marvel’s 2014 Guardians Of The Galaxy.Įven further away is a detour to Africa, and Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, where the wounded and quite bonkers Megatron, along with Soundwave, are lying low – and scaring the wildlife. Built in 2001, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and worthy of a corporate plutocrat, the gallery houses the soaring cathedral-like space of Windhover Hall with its vaulted a 90-foot-high glass ceiling, the Reiman Bridge, a pedestrian connection to the city, and the spectacular Burke Brise Soleil, a movable sunscreen with a 217-foot wingspan that unfolds and folds twice daily. It’s the postmodern Quadracci Pavilion of Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee. There’s another trip out of state, this time north to Wisconsin, to find the ostentatiously flashy automobile art gallery owned by ostentatiously flashy billionaire Dylan Gould ( Patrick Dempsey), where Carly works as curator. It’s Chicago’s enormous Old Post Office building, 433 West Van Buren Street, which served as the ‘Gotham’ bank robbed by the Joker ( Heath Ledger) at the opening of Christopher Nolan’s epic. If you saw The Dark Knight, you might recognise the ‘Department of Health and Human Services’ which serves as the secret ‘Washington DC’ HQ of NEST (Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty). Transformers Dark Of The Moon location: the ‘Department of Health and Human Services’ – NEST HQ: Chicago Post Office Building, West Van Buren Street, Chicago For instance, when Colonel Lennox ( Josh Duhamel) is briefed about a mysterious discovery in Ukraine, he’s in the stunning lobby of the Fisher Building, 3011 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, a landmark 1928 skyscraper built by the Motor City’s Fisher family with proceeds from the sale of its autobody company to General Motors.

The film mixes up Washington DC and Chicago quite recklessly, and also manages to incorporate quite a bit of Detroit. Since this apartment has an excellent view of the Chicago Cultural Center and is overlooked by the angled profile of the Crain Communications Building on Chicago’s North Michigan Avenue, you won’t be surprised to hear that it’s in the heart of Chicago’s central Loop, on North Garland Court just south of East Washington Street. There’s no Witwicky house this time round, with Sam and Carly together occupying an artfully distressed loft in ‘Washington DC’. The government bigwigs are seen arriving at the similarly classical American Red Cross Headquarters, 430 17th Street at D Street.Īnd the interior, where decades later Sam Witwicky ( Shia Labeouf) meets Carly ( Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) after collecting his medal from President Obama, is the O’Byrne Gallery of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Constitution Hall, 1776 D Street NW. The movie’s ‘White House’ really is in Washington DC, but it’s not on Pennsylvania Avenue. The 1969 Apollo programme was, as we now all surely know, ordered by President Kennedy following the detection of an alien craft on the moon. It’s overblown and overlong but, as the USA’s most photogenic city gets destroyed in spectacular fashion by Very Big Things hitting each other, Dark Of The Moon is a great improvement on Revenge of The Fallen.

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