Tyrell Corporation Headquarters

The pyramid from which Eldon Tyrell looks down on Los Angeles.

The Tyrell Corporation Headquarters is a massive structure in Los Angeles that houses the offices and laboratories of Dr. Eldon Tyrell. It is the location where Rick Deckard administers the Voight-Kampff test to Rachael, and where Roy Batty later confronts and kills Tyrell. The film opens on the two pyramids the corporation operates from, and Tyrell lives in a penthouse at the top.

Quick Facts

Key figure: Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Lore & Background

In the film Deckard comes here to try the Voight-Kampff test on a Nexus-6, and Tyrell has him test his assistant Rachael; the owl kept in the building is artificial. In 2022 the replicants Iggy and Trixie attack the headquarters and blow up its archives.

Reader's Guide

The Tyrell Corporation Headquarters is the setting for key scenes in Blade Runner. It is where Deckard first meets Rachael and where Roy Batty confronts his creator. The building's design reflects Tyrell's god-like ambitions, with its pyramid shape and isolated upper chambers. Before the film begins two of Roy Batty's group die here, killed in an electrical field while trying to get in, and Leon shoots the blade runner Holden while posing as a new employee.