# What is the building shown at the end of Netflix's Maniac? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770 "2018-11-19T05:57:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EdwardLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/1 "2018-11-19T05:57:02Z")
In the Netflix show _Maniac_, the final sequence shows a building that looks familiar but which I can’t place. The front features tall, white columns that flare at the top like inverted umbrellas. Anyone know the name and/or location of this building? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/2 "2018-11-19T06:10:11Z")
welcome to the board and just to let you know our movie and tv section is called café society which is where this will be moved shortly…… Now as for the question … ive never seen it … ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/3 "2018-11-19T06:47:05Z")
This one? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-trbRAivL9U/maxresdefault.jpg "Maniac Ending Explained and Questions Answered!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-trbRAivL9U) ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/4 "2018-11-19T08:48:22Z")
**Moderator Action** Moving thread from GQ to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/5 "2018-11-19T21:10:05Z")
Anyways, the building in the video is not familiar to me. It looks to me like a rental office space style building with a little extra flair, but not like something you’d really expect to see on the cover of an architecture magazine. The show seems to have been shot around New York, so I would assume that it’s some building there, and possibly the OP has driven by it once or twice? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/6 "2018-11-19T21:28:54Z")
They reminded me of the interior ones Frank Lloyd Wright used in the [Johnson Wax workroom](https://www.google.com/search?q=johnson+wax+columns&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS751US751&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii7qfusuHeAhUF3YMKHbBUCKkQ_AUIDigB&biw=827&bih=426#imgrc=jEPl9lY9vfmDcM:) ---
**Author:** ![EdwardLost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-building-shown-at-the-end-of-netflixs-maniac/824770/7 "2018-11-20T16:34:06Z")
Thank you. When I saw it on screen I had the impression it was something I had seen before - something fairly well-known. Maybe that was just a mis-memory of the Johnson building.