Severance: Explore Real-Life Locations That Built Lumon's World

10. The TWA Hotel – JFK Airport, New York (Corporate Interiors & Break Room Scenes)

The TWA Hotel at JFK Airport, an architectural masterpiece of mid-century modern design, serves as one of Severance’s most visually striking corporate interiors, including portions of the break room and Lumon’s meticulously controlled workspaces. Originally designed by Eero Saarinen in the 1960s, the TWA Hotel is a perfect real-world counterpart to Lumon’s unsettlingly polished aesthetic. The smooth, sweeping curves, sharp geometric symmetry, and cold minimalism of the space create a futuristic yet soulless environment—the ideal setting for a company that treats its workers more like data points than people. The red-carpeted hallways, expansive white interiors, and retro-futuristic furniture give the hotel an almost timeless quality, making it feel simultaneously nostalgic and dystopian. This aesthetic choice reinforces Severance’s core theme of corporate control wrapped in an illusion of comfort. The break room scenes, which are filmed in this space, become even more haunting and surreal against this backdrop. The meticulous, almost too-perfect design of the TWA Hotel mirrors the psychological manipulation at play within Lumon, where employees are expected to blindly accept the company’s fabricated reality.