For Westworld Season 3, Los Angeles of 2058 Was Built With Input From Bjarke Ingels – Architectural Digest

A challenge for Cummings and his team in season three was maintaining what he calls the language of style developed in season two for the Delos Corporation now that the world has been so greatly expanded. The Mesa, where Delos houses its laboratories and offices inside the Westworld theme park, is a palette of blacks, reds, whites, and grays. When we got out into the real world, we got very challenged by the fact that the palette is kind of exploding, Cummings explains. The solution was to keep color and life in certain environments, then return to the established color palette when inside the Delos Corporation offices.

Maeve Millay (played by Thandie Newton) at La Fbrica, which the Westworld team augmented to create a more futuristic version.

The offices themselves were filmed at the Santiago Calatravadesigned City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain. Also featured prominently this season is Ricardo Bofills masterpiece La Fbrica, which Cummings was able to secure after Ingels introduced him to Bofills son, Carlos. We used parts of the real place, and then created a futuristic [version] of it through an additional set, Cummings says. The whole place is this wonderful, weird, Industrial-meets-postmodern-Gothic thing. Its very interesting.

This Wallace E. Cunninghamdesigned residence in Encinitas, California, was the perfect fit for the aesthetic of season three.

Another location used was a Wallace E. Cunninghamdesigned residence in Encinitas, California, that features a concrete, floating staircase and expansive use of glass. One reason we were attracted to it is because it incorporated the language of the corporate offices and the Delos Corporation we had done the year before, Cummings says. It incorporated a lot of the design details that we had already been putting into this season, too.

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Cummings and set decorator Julie Ochipinti achieved a sense of orderly futurism by placing large LED panels on walls both decoratively and as a source of light. In order to tie things together, we created our own lighting, Cummings adds. Custom lighting pieces were manufactured by Damon Liebowitz, while Ochipinti sourced the rest from Y Lighting and A&R Lighting. We stressed a lot of vertical, linear-looking lighting explains Cummings. We avoided candles, and added a lot of underlighting and built-in lighting.

Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) at the Wallace E. Cunninghamdesigned residence in Encinitas, California.

For furniture and accessories, Ochipinti used Muji, HD Buttercup, Hammer and Spear, JF Chen, and Tortoise. We simply couldnt rebuild all the furniture given the scale of things, Cummings says with a laugh, referencing the shoots in Singapore, Spain, and Los Angeles. This year was really a global endeavor, he concludes. I didnt actually sleep very much.

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For Westworld Season 3, Los Angeles of 2058 Was Built With Input From Bjarke Ingels - Architectural Digest