History Main / BigLabyrinthineBuilding

* Unseen University from the {{Disworld}}, though technically a complex rather than a building. It is noted that due to the high magic levels in the University and low amounts of reality in the Discworld 'verse, UU is constantly adding and subtracting rooms on a daily basis. A map of the place looks like a chrysanthemum in the process of exploding, and is only anywhere close to helpful for maybe a week at best.

* The Enrichment Center in ''{{Portal}}'' and ''{{Portal 2}}''.

* The eponymous ''GunnerkriggCourt''

This building is so big and labyrinthine that few people know its deeper recesses. It might or might not contain big rooms or pieces of equipment, but a lot of the bulk is taken up by ordinary-sized rooms and corridoors. Overlaps a lot with BuildingOfAdventure. Compare ClownCarBase.

* The [[Series/DoctorWho Tardis]]; In one episode, the Doctor, looking for a remote room, leaves thread behind him so he can find his way back.

* ''The HouseOfLeaves'' is a [[color:blue: house]] that is [[ClownCarBase bigger on the inside]] and contains [[AlienGeometries odd angles]] and possibly [[strike:[[color:red: minotaur]]]] other things. When asked to draw it, a kid produced an [[RoomFullOfCrazy all-black drawing]].

* [[HarryPotter Hogwarts]] (Duh)

* [[{{Discworld}} Unseen University]], though technically a complex rather than a building. It is noted that due to the high magic levels in the University and low amounts of reality in the Discworld 'verse, UU is constantly adding and subtracting rooms on a daily basis. A map of the place looks like a chrysanthemum in the process of exploding, and is only anywhere close to helpful for maybe a week at best.

* [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka's chocolate factory]].

* [[HalfLife Black Mesa]].
* [[{{Portal}} The Enrichment Center]] is shown to be large enough in the first game, by the second game we see how truly massive the place is.

* The Tower of the Egg in RobertHeinlein's ''GloryRoad''.

* The [[DoctorWho Tardis]]; In one episode, the Doctor, looking for a remote room, leaves thread behind him so he can find his way back.

** The ''{{Torchwood}}'' hub

* Any SteelMill. The Severstal mill in Magnitogorsk, Russia, is ''eleven kilometres'' of continuous buildings, workshops, corridors and halls.

This building is so big and labyrinthine that few people know its deeper recesses. It might or might not contain big rooms or pieces of equipment, but a lot of the bulk is taken up by ordinary-sized rooms and corridoors. Overlaps a lot with {{Xanadu}}. Compare ClownCarBase.

* The British houses of parliament have more corridors in length than the White House has in floor space in area.
** You mean more corridors than the white house has floor space in m^2? What unit one uses can sometimes make the difference. I doubt it would still apply if you use the planck length and square planck length, for example.
*** It probably does, considering that the Houses of Parliament is a structure closer in size to the Capitol Building than the considerably smaller White House.
**** I just worked it out. One square meter is one planck length by six quintillion light years. Being closer in size to the Capitol Building isn't going to help it.

* The Castle Heterodyne in GirlGenius. It's "''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090213 riddled]]'' with medical labs" and its corridors are patrolled by "[[SpikeBallsOfDoom The happy fun ball of death]]". Which rolls faster than walking speed... and its full route is still ''a week long''.

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* Probably the [[MostTriumphantExample Most Triumphant]] RL Example... the [[http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/ Winchester Mystery House]] (scroll down to #4). A house in San Jose, with 160 rooms, built like a maze to confuse ghosts - with stairways disappearing into the ceiling, doors opening into walls, and lots of 13's strewn about the place.

** You mean more corridors than the white house has floor space in m^2? What unit one uses can sometimes make the difference. I doubt it would still apply if you use the plank length and square plank length, for example.

* The Castle Heterodyne in GirlGenius. It's "''[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090213 riddled]]'' with medical labs" and the corridors are patrolled by "[[SpikeBallsOfDoom The happy fun ball of death]]" rolling faster than at walking speed... and its full route is still ''a week long''.

*The ''Place that sends you Mad'' from ''The 12 Tasks of Asterix'' is set in a Labyrinthine office building. The unhelpful personel only makes it worst.