Alan Parsons/ELO Fans: What Factory Is This?

[Jinx]

On the cover of the Alan Parsons Project album entitled “Ammonia Avenue” is a very distinct looking factory with colorful piping. I believe the same building appears as a backdrop for this ELO videoof “Calling America”…about 15 seconds into the video, and many more shots throughout the video. It is unusual that any factory would use such colorful piping.

[Leaffan]

I don’t have the answer, but would like to know.

[awldune]

Is it not the Pompidou Center in Paris?

Wikipedia says that it is in the ELO video.

[samclem]

According to [Ammonia Avenue](http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/ammonia avenue)

Eric met John Harvey Jones, Chairman of ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries), on a Concord trip to New York. He invited Eric to visit the ICI plant in Billingham England in the hope that he might be creatively inspired. The first thing Eric saw was a street with miles of pipes, no people, no trees and a sign that said ‘Ammonia Avenue’

The cover of the album is a mandala split picture using a four part split of a photograph of the Avenue itself in Billingham.

But, I have no idea about the background in the music video.

[samclem]

@awldune

Is it not the Pompidou Center in Paris?

https://beckygoesabroad.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/img_5999edit.jpg

Wikipedia says that it is in the ELO video.

Indeed. Good find. Shot in 1986.

[awldune]

@samclem

Indeed. Good find. Shot in 1986.

If you have been to the Pompidou it is very easy to remember!