The Martian buildings in FB?

[Tuomo]

We watched The Martian again this weekend, and of course looked up some trivia about it afterwards. Apparently in the end when the crowds were gathered around various places watching and waiting for the outcome of the effort to Save Mark Watney, they used some huge buildings around Budapest to stand in for the Chinese Space Agency HQ (and maybe London, I think?)

Anybody know what those buildings were?

 

[Michael Dorosh]

Filming Locations for The Martian (2015), in Budapest and Jordan..

Travel guide to film locations for The Martian (2015), in Budapest and Jordan.

www.movie-locations.com

According to this link, the Chinese space agency is really the Mupa Performing Arts Centre, Budapest, Hungary. General relation to the FB map is:

 

[Bill Cirillo]

Oh, cool!

When the family and I took an evening cruise along the Danube in Budapest two years ago, the boat pulls a u-turn in the river right around where this building sits just back from the river bank.

 

[von Marwitz]

Oh, cool!

When the family and I took an evening cruise along the Danube in Budapest two years ago, the boat pulls a u-turn in the river right around where this building sits just back from the river bank.

Did you see Chinese UFOs at that time?

von Marwitz

 

[Michael Dorosh]

Did you see Chinese UFOs at that time?

von Marwitz

If he knew they were Chinese, wouldn't that make them IFOs?