An open floor plan, spacious bedrooms, plenty of bathrooms, walk-in closets and a large kitchen.
Those are items to consider when you're in the market for a new house.
High-tech security, trap doors and helipads nestled inside a volcano.
That's what you might consider if you're a lunatic bent on world domination.
So, exactly the kinds of things you'll find in Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains, a new book by world-renowned architect, Chad Oppenheim. From a handful of Bond villain homesteads to Dr. Strangelove's War Room and the iconic Death Star, the coffee table-worthy tome explores the architecture of some of the big screen's most visually stunning lairs.
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The handsome, 290-page hardcover book is presented in silver ink on black paper, so it stands out from your typical architecture reads. Inside, you'll find eye-catching 3D blueprints of the infamous lairs, plus interviews with the people who helped bring the sets to life.
Those lairs include a few classic choices, like Karl Stromberg's underwater marine research lab, Atlantis, in "The Spy Who Loved Me." There's also morally-compromised tech genius Nathan Bateman's Alaskan compound in "Ex Machina." And there's even Syndrome's crazy lair from "The Incredibles," complete with monorail and waterfall.
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The book features 15 films in all, with plenty of photos and elaborate blueprints. Enlist the latter if you'd like to build an underwater habitat or volcano-adjacent house or planet-destroying space station with enough bedrooms and bathrooms to house your whole family for the holidays.
Movie villains... they're just like us.
Reprinted with permission from Tra Publishing, 2019; Architectural illustrations and renderings by Carlos Fueyo.