Real Building

Name: The Beaver Building
Designer: Clinton and Russell
Location: New York City, New York
Date: 1904
Built for: served as the headquarters of the Munson Steamship Line in 1904-1921 and used in john wick film and used as a residential tower
Style: Neo-Renaissance building

OnScreen Architecture:
Film Name: John Wick 2
Director: Chad Stahelski
Premiere date: 18/05/2017
Synopsis: Retired super-assassin John Wick's plans to resume a quiet civilian life are cut short when Italian gangster Santino D'Antonio shows up on his doorstep with a gold marker, compelling him to repay past favours. Ordered by Winston, the kingpin of secret assassin society The Continental, to respect the organisation's ancient code, Wick reluctantly accepts the assignment to travel to Rome to take out D'Antonio's sister, the ruthless capo atop the Italian Camorra crime syndicate.

Genre: Action/Thriller, i have played in this type of film before

Real: I am a building on 1 Wall Street Court, built on a corner in the middle of the city. Built for residence since 1904. I am 15 story high and is shaped similar to a flatiron positioned in the corner of wall, Pearl and beaver street. 

Actor: I am used to shoot movies for john wick movie series, I act as a middle ground for all bad people, where they are not allow to act out or do anything wrong within my building. I am an ominous building, built in a corner in the middle of New York. 

The client of the real building was designed for people, and residency. 
The audience is the people who enjoy actor, thriller 
The character who inhabit it can be normal every day people or Bad guys

The Beaver building was constructed in 1904, located in Manhanttan,New York City by Clinton and Russell. It was built on a triangular site facing Wall street. The building is 15 stories in height and was consideredas the lastest modern office building during the time in New York. It is a neo-Renaissance style building designed with ornamentations on its exterior with sculpture. Within the film of John Wick 2, directed by Chad Stahelski released on the 18th of May, 2017. The Beaver building is known as the Continental Hotel used by dangerous people, but it acts as a middle ground for everyone meaning violence will not be tolorated within the interior of the building. The genre of the film is action/thriller which draws audience who loves action packed scene such as fighting fighting, shooting and chasing. The director manipulates the scene, which is supposed to be within the Beaver building, but location of the scene of the onscreen architecture, is film from another location and is placed into the film to create a sense that it belongs to the offscreen architecture. This is due to how the director wants to appropriate or transform the offscreen architecture to represent it for the purpose of the onscreen architecure.

For example, the interior of the entrance lobby of the onscreen architecture (Continental Hotel) was appropriated from the hall of the Cunard Building to create a space in which the director wants the audience to believe that it is actually in the offscreen architecture. This shows that the director only used the exterior of the beaver building to highlight it as an important building within the onscreen architecture, where he uses different spaces from other different location to show off the onscreen architecture. 

Similarly, the director shows the roof of the Continental Hotel where John Wick meets the owner of the hotel. This scene was not actually shot at the location of the offscreen architecture but is shot on the Rockfeller Plaza building, with St. Patrick’s Cathedral as a Backdrop for the scene. This furthermore highlight that the director’s intention of appropriating and transforming the scene to be more suitable for the narrative of the onscreen architecture. 

Furthermore, the onscreen architecture is further exaggerated through its interior of the Continental lounge which does not exist in the offscreen architecture in the Beaver building, where the scene is actually shot in Jane Hotel in Greenwich Village located in New York. Overall, the director wants to create a faults view of the offscreen architecture with the onscreen architecture by manipulating the scene from different location other than the actual building. 

'Scene' of Offscreen Architecture 

'Scene' of Onscreen Architecture 

After the incident of john’s wick house and a long walk on Brooklyn Bridge. He decides to pay a quick visit to an old friend, someone he could trust his life with, without having to worry about getting betrayaled. 

He keeps his cool walking calmly towards the continental hotel with his obedient dog besides him. Feeling targeted, and having no idea why this is happening to him. The only one who can answer this question is his old friend. 

As he walks into the building, he move through space that is 9 mins away from the actual building and arrives at the lobby of the hotel. Walking in stern manner as he appoarches the counter.

John Wick said “Where is he?”.
“Waiting for you upstair, Sir.” Replied the butler. 
“Stay” said Wick to his dog, as he walked slowly towards the elevator of the hotel. 

Upon exiting the elevator onto the roof top, he has again moved through to a new space that is 14 mins drive away. As he exits out of the elevator, he’s met with a luxurious view of the roof terrace and two people making a deal over something. 

As he appoarch the table, the unknown businessman quickly packs his stuff, with a hurry on his face looking at Wick as he walks off the screen. Wick met his old friend and discuss his business with him about the people who tried to kill him.