Wrought-iron staircases and balconies rising through a skylit brick court — Behind the screen: the Bradbury Building’s court. Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress. Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain

Voight-Kampff · subject 00Los Angeles · November 2019Filmed 1981

A young man with fair hair in a jacket leaning on a doorway rail — Rutger Hauer · Amsterdam, 1979 Fotopersbureau De Boer · CC0

Sean Young with short dark hair, smiling, on a red carpet — Sean Young · Academy Awards, 1988 Alan Light · CC BY 2.0

Harrison Ford in a black tie, head and shoulders — Harrison Ford · Phoenix, 2013 Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

Blade Runner

Subject 00 is the iron court behind this screen. Real, or built?

The pupil is steady. Answer to run the test.

Voight-Kampff · places

Real or built?

In the film, a blade runner sorts human from replicant with a machine that watches the eye while it asks questions about empathy. Run it on the city instead. Seven subjects from the two films: say whether each was a real place or something built.

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The polygraph-like Voight-Kampff machine was used by the Blade Runners to tell whether someone was an android, provoking emotional responses and tracking blush response, respiration, heart rate and eye movement.
Lancaster University: Is this the kind of world we actually want? (10 May 2016)
The film features the Voight-Kampff test, an emotional-response test that monitors the eye.
AFI Catalog: Blade Runner (1982)

Subject 01 · Blade Runner, 1982

A skylit court of iron stairs where Sebastian lives.

Subject 1 of 7. Real place, or built?

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304 South Broadway · Sebastian’s building

Built for the year 2000. Finished in 1893.

Call the cage

The film’s home stretch, the last fight, plays out here on South Broadway at Third Street. The ground floor is open to the public.

Looking up an open iron lift cage to a glass roof — The Bradbury’s open-cage lift and skylight, April 2019. Damien Blackshaw · CC BY-SA 4.0

A working office building. The ground floor and the court are open to visitors in office hours; the upper floors are for tenants.

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Carved ornament over a window of the Million Dollar Theatre, March 2022. Shesmax · CC BY-SA 4.0
307 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Million Dollar Theatre
Its marquee glistens in several shots. It holds occasional screenings through the year. It opened in 1918 as Sid Grauman’s first Los Angeles theatre, with 2,345 seats.
See the front from Broadway, opposite the Bradbury. Inside only for its occasional screenings and events.
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The Pan American Lofts sign on Broadway, September 2022. Another Believer · CC BY-SA 4.0
253 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Pan American Building
Across the street from the Bradbury, it was christened the Yukon Hotel in the film. Today it holds lofts.
Lofts now: see it from the pavement across Broadway from the Bradbury.
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Grand Central Market from Broadway, April 2014. Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
317 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Grand Central Market
Discover Los Angeles lists the market among the film’s locations: street scenes were filmed nearby.
An indoor food hall on the Bradbury’s block, open every day. Each stall keeps its own hours.
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Bradbury Building

The Bradbury’s court

304 South Broadway · Ground floor open to the public

Sebastian’s building. The ground floor and court are open to visitors; the floors above are working offices.

About the building

Los Angeles Conservancy

Historic Downtown walking tour

Downtown Los Angeles · Every Saturday · 10am

The Conservancy’s weekly walk through the historic core around Broadway.

See the tour

A long hall with tall arched windows, a beamed ceiling and a patterned tiled floor — Union Station’s old ticket concourse, September 2017. Codera23 · CC BY-SA 4.0

800 North Alameda Street · 1 km from the Bradbury

The police station sells no tickets.

The Ticket Concourse is the police station in Blade Runner. The station opened on 3 May 1939, designed by the father-and-son architects John and Donald Parkinson.

The old ticket hall, with 30 windows of American black walnut, is now used as an event space.

A working station, open to all. The old Ticket Concourse is now an event hall, so check before you go; free Metro Art tours are booked online.

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Metro Art

Union Station art and architecture tour

800 North Alameda Street · Free · booked online

Docents lead a free tour of the station that played the police station, including areas not normally open.

Book a place

A curving white-tiled road tunnel lit by strip lights — The 2nd Street Tunnel at night, October 2013. Prayitno · CC BY 2.0

The 2nd Street Tunnel

Discover Los Angeles lists the century-old tunnel, lined with glazed white tile, among the film’s locations. It runs between Figueroa and Hill streets.

A working road tunnel. See it from either end, or drive it; take care with traffic.

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Burbank · the Fashion District

The crowded city was a New York street.

Built · 3400 Warner Boulevard

A studio water tower against a blue sky — The water tower at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, November 2020. Chris Yarzab · CC BY 2.0

Warner Bros. Studios

The studio lot was the main location: an old New York set was re-dressed as an unnamed, Asian-dominated city of the near future. Stages 4, 24 and 25 were used; Stage 48 has Blade Runner exhibits.

A working studio, open only on the paid Studio Tour (8.30am–3.30pm, about three hours, adults from $79). Stage 48 has Blade Runner exhibits.

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Real · Santee Alley

A narrow alley crowded with shoppers between stalls hung with clothes — Santee Alley on a Saturday, January 2011. David Hilowitz · CC BY 2.0

Santee Alley

The Fashion District alley was used for street chase scenes. More than 150 stores and vendors open 365 days a year, 9.30am to 6pm, between Santee Street and Maple Avenue, from Olympic Boulevard to 12th Street.

Open every day, 9.30am to 6pm. Busiest at weekends.

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Warner Bros. Studio Tour Hollywood

Burbank · Daily 8.30am–3.30pm · adults from $79

About three hours on the lot where the city of 2019 was built from a New York street. Stage 48 has Blade Runner exhibits.

See the tour

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A long low house of patterned concrete blocks on a hillside — The Ennis House from Glendower Avenue, October 2005. Mike Dillon · CC BY-SA 3.0

Los Feliz · 1924

Deckard’s home, someone else’s.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House appears briefly as the outside of Deckard’s home. It was built in 1924 from more than 27,000 concrete blocks.

It is privately owned and not open for visits. A private home. It is not on our map.

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Blade Runner 2049 · Szabadság tér, Budapest

9,998 km from the Bradbury

Las Vegas was built in Hungary.

The sequel was made mostly on all six stages and the backlot of Origo Film Studios and three stages at Korda Studios in Etyek; its San Diego and Las Vegas were built in and around Budapest.

In Blade Runner 2049 the building plays the Vintage Casino, where K goes to find Deckard. Korean characters were added to the windows above the doorway; the lobby stair, columns and lamps stay recognisable.

Ignác Alpár’s exchange was completed in 1907. Hungarian Television used it from 1955 until 2009; in 2020 it stood empty, closed to the public.

Closed inside. See the front from Szabadság tér, a public square.

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A grand domed stairwell with a round glass skylight and pale stone columns — Inside the Stock Exchange Palace, Budapest, January 2021. Christo · CC BY-SA 4.0

The ending · cigarette foil

Fold a unicorn.

Five folds. Each one tells part of how the story ended, on screen and off.

A flat square of foil.

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Gaff folds small paper figures through the film, a chicken and a stick man among them, to answer what Deckard is thinking.
MovieMaker: Edward James Olmos on Blade Runner’s Gaff (Tim Molloy, 24 October 2025)
Gaff is played by Edward James Olmos.
AFI Catalog: Blade Runner (1982)
Near the end Gaff leaves an origami unicorn in Deckard’s apartment. It echoes Deckard’s dream, and hints that he may be a replicant himself.
MovieMaker: Edward James Olmos on Blade Runner’s Gaff (Tim Molloy, 24 October 2025)
The 1982 cinema release ended on mountains filmed for the opening of The Shining: Stanley Kubrick lent Scott his helicopter footage. Later cuts dropped that ending.
Open Culture: How Ridley Scott turned footage from the beginning of The Shining into the end of Blade Runner (Colin Marshall, 15 October 2013)
Philip K. Dick, whose 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became the film, died of a stroke on 2 March 1982. The film opened on 25 June and is dedicated to him.
Cornell University Library: Android Dreams, Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott’s replicant futures AFI Catalog: Blade Runner (1982)

End credits

More human than the sets.

Harrison Ford at Celebrity Fight Night in Phoenix, March 2013. Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0
Harrison FordDeckard
Rutger Hauer filming in Amsterdam, May 1979, three years before Blade Runner. Fotopersbureau De Boer · CC0
Rutger HauerRoy Batty
Sean Young on the red carpet at the Academy Awards, April 1988. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0
Sean YoungRachael
Ridley Scott at WonderCon, Anaheim, March 2012. Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ridley ScottDirector
Philip K. Dick in the early 1960s. Photograph by Arthur Knight. Arthur Knight · Public domain
Philip K. DickThe novel

Ridley Scott directed Harrison Ford as Deckard, Rutger Hauer as the replicant Roy Batty and Sean Young as Rachael. Hauer’s dying speech is about moments lost in time, like tears in rain.

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Cast: Harrison Ford (Deckard), Rutger Hauer (Roy Batty), Sean Young (Rachael); directed by Ridley Scott; set in Los Angeles, November 2019; released 25 June 1982.
AFI Catalog: Blade Runner (1982)
Hauer played the murderous replicant Roy Batty; his dying soliloquy speaks of moments lost in time, like tears in rain.
PBS NewsHour: Actor Rutger Hauer of Blade Runner fame has died at 75 (Mark Kennedy, AP, 24 July 2019)
Dick’s papers, with screenplays of the film adaptations, are open for research at California State University, Fullerton.
Online Archive of California: Philip K. Dick papers, California State University, Fullerton

When the rain stops.

Where it is now

9 places you can visit. The Ennis House is a private home: it is named, and it is not on the map.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working office building. The ground floor and the court are open to visitors in office hours; the upper floors are for tenants.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. See the front from Broadway, opposite the Bradbury. Inside only for its occasional screenings and events.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Lofts now: see it from the pavement across Broadway from the Bradbury.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An indoor food hall on the Bradbury’s block, open every day. Each stall keeps its own hours.

The Bradbury Building’s court and staircases. Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress. Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain
304 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Bradbury Building
Its light-filled court rises almost fifty feet, with open cage lifts, marble stairs and ornate iron railings. It was built in 1893.
A working office building. The ground floor and the court are open to visitors in office hours; the upper floors are for tenants.
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Carved ornament over a window of the Million Dollar Theatre, March 2022. Shesmax · CC BY-SA 4.0
307 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Million Dollar Theatre
Its marquee glistens in several shots. It holds occasional screenings through the year.
See the front from Broadway, opposite the Bradbury. Inside only for its occasional screenings and events.
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The Pan American Lofts sign on Broadway, September 2022. Another Believer · CC BY-SA 4.0
253 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Pan American Building
Across the street from the Bradbury, it was christened the Yukon Hotel in the film. Today it holds lofts.
Lofts now: see it from the pavement across Broadway from the Bradbury.
Test sources
Grand Central Market from Broadway, April 2014. Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
317 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Grand Central Market
Discover Los Angeles lists the market among the film’s locations: street scenes were filmed nearby.
An indoor food hall on the Bradbury’s block, open every day. Each stall keeps its own hours.
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Stay

A room on Broadway.

Not a filming location: a hotel further down the same street as the Bradbury.

The Hoxton

The Hoxton, Downtown LA

1060 South Broadway

Not a filming location: 174 rooms in the old headquarters of the L.A. Railway, further down Broadway from the Bradbury, with a rooftop pool.

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