History Main / BuildingOfAdventure

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'': The Spencer Mansion in Resident Evil and Marcus' Training facility.

** With their shifting floor plans, obstacles requiring multi-level detours, and doors that involve elaborate puzzles and bizarre objects to unlock, any large building encountered in any Silent Hill game counts. And that's before you even factor in the monster inhabitants.

* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' takes place almost entirely in the Student Council room. It's rare to even see the hallways or the school itself.

* ''VideoGame/YsOrigin'': Excluding an intro sequence with no combat, the entire game occurs in Darm Tower. The interior is very spacious, with the tower likely having a diameter of a couple thousand feet.

* In ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' pinball, everything is technically taking place inside a Curio Shop. At least until the player assembles the door panels and enters The Zone...

* ''Film/TheToweringInferno'': It takes place almost entirely in and around a newly-built New York City skyscraper.

* The Galeria Mall in ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.

* Most of the events in ''[[Pinball/WHODunnit WHO dunnit]]'' take place at Tony's Palace, a hotel and casino.

** Considering that the Hermitage is part of the Winter Palace, it would probably qualify as a Crowning Building of Awesome, if there were such an entry.

* ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'' takes place almost entirely in the Student Council room. It's rare to even see the hallways or the school itself.

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* Like Hogwarts, Duel Academy in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' is a school cut off from the rest of the world. In chronological order, 3 demons were sealed away, a maniac with a KillSat tried to brainwash everyone, and the island was sent to an alternate dimension.

* The anime ''Anime/AndroidAnnouncerMaico2010'' has everything take place inside a radio station. (This is not true in the manga ''Maico 2010'' on which it was based.)
* The vast majority of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'''s Hueco Mundo arc takes place in one massive building called Las Noches. Despite atomic sized explosions [[spoiler: such as those caused by Ichigo's Hollow and Ulquiorra's Segunda Espada form]], barely any of the structure is even scathed.

* The same can be said for [[ComicBook/TheAvengers the Avengers']] mansion and Stark tower.
* ComicBook/DoctorStrange's mansion also acts as this and is an example of GeniusLoci since it's at least somewhat alive.

* Clamp Centre in ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' is some kind of souped-up, all-purpose commercial district. Even the relative size of the building changes from scene to scene. (Check out the clouds outside of Daniel Clamp's office.)
-->'''WebVideo/MikeJ:''' So, they do architecture, food, TV broadcasting; of ''course'' the Clamp Building is home to a genetics lab (which looks shockingly like a children's daycare)!
* ''Film/RearWindow'' takes place entirely within one tenement building, with all the action either taking place in, or being observed from, a single apartment. ''Film/{{Rope}}'' likewise is filmed in real time in one apartment, and ''Film/{{Lifeboat}}'' takes place in a lifeboat. All Hitchcock films.

* ''Film/LogansRun'' is implied to take place AfterTheEnd. All of mankind lives in giant domes full to bursting with all that one could want, all set to synthesizer music. But there's darkness in paradise...
* The house of ''Film/PanicRoom''.
* ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'': Except for the opening and closing scenes in the courtroom itself, never leaves the jury room.
* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' mostly takes place inside the warehouse.

* There are only two rooms in ''Film/TheRoom'' and the roof.
* ''Russian Ark'', a two hour film completely inside the Russian State Hermitage Museum. In real time with a vengance, as the film was made in one, uncut, shot. "2000 Actors. 300 years of Russian History. 33 Rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 3 Live Orchestras. 1 Single Continuous Shot."
** Considering that the Hermitage is part of the Winter Palace, it would probably qualify as a Crowning Building of Awesome, if there were such an entry.
* ''Film/RaiseTheRedLantern'' takes place entirely within one Chinese estate, but still gets an entry in SceneryPorn. Not a bad accomplishment by Creator/ZhangYimou, to say the least. Despite the obvious differences in the works, comparisons to ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'' seem interestingly appropriate at times.
* ''Film/TheManFromEarth'' takes place in one room, and a few short scenes in front of the house.
* ''Film/CrimsonTide'' takes place almost entirely inside a single nuclear submarine.
* ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'': Takes place within the confines of the eponymous house.

* Apart from the prologue, ''Film/TigerHouse'' takes entirely inside Mark's family home or its grounds.
* The action in ''Film/TheNotoriousDaughterOfFannyHill'' never moves out of Kissey's luxurious boudoir and salon where she entertains her clients.

* ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'': Gormenghast Castle, from Mervyn Peake's ''Titus Groan'' novels, blurs the line between a city and a single building.
* John [=DeChancie=]'s ''Literature/CastlePerilous'' series -- subverted in that inside the castle are 144,000 ''universes''.

* Evenmore in James Stoddard's ''Literature/TheHighHouse''.
* Set up and subverted in ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey''. Catherine is sure that the titular building is going to be ominous and full of mystery since an ancient abbey is right out of the Gothic romances she so enjoys. She is, consequently, disappointed when it ends up being a well-lit, comfortably furnished building with every modern convenience.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' Bayside High from ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' seems to contain the entire universe. A few of the kids' bedrooms were occasionally shown (always using the same redecorated set). The exception is the Max, where they often hang out after school.
* The store in ''Series/TodaysSpecial''.
* Initially, the bar in ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' (probably for economic reasons). After a couple of seasons, scenes outside the bar became a regular occurrence.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' tried to do this in its early seasons, but branched out to the rest of the galaxy when the titular station couldn't seem to provide quite enough intrigue.
* ''Series/BabylonFive'' didn't limit itself solely to the eponymous station, but many of the episodes were set entirely on it, in various sections.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'' for much of its run. Indeed, in the first series, they did not leave the ship once. Of course, like the above two examples, the titular ship is the size of a small city anyway (6 miles long, 5 miles high, 4 miles wide -- that adds up to a lot of interior space), although the lack of population makes that largely moot.
* ''Woops!'': The farmhouse in Fox's 1992 AfterTheEnd sitcom was more or less the center of the world. It had to be: it was the only thing left for miles around.

* In ''Series/{{ER}},'' most of the action happens within the Chicago County General Hospital.
* ''Series/BarneyMiller'''s police station. Nearly all the stories are {{Bottle Episode}}s in the dilapidated precinct, which sees hostage crises, fire, suicide attempts, Jesus ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Jesus]]), and [[LooksLikeJesus guys that look like Jesus]].

* The radio station in ''Series/NewsRadio''.
* The bus station in ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow''.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'': The titular hospital was originally an example of this trope, in fact in its first few years almost all of the action was set entirely on the seventh floor. Eventually as money became available, character's apartments and homes were shown and the hospital was eventually shown less and less until the title of the show become somewhat of a misnomer, although the hospital set has been used a lot more lately. In essence, the show evolved from this trope to CityOfAdventure, since even now most of the action remains in Port Charles.
* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' ''very'' rarely left Grace Brothers Department Store.
* The Vecindad in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''.
* ''Series/TheNewMonkees'' rarely left the mansion they lived in.
* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': 704 Houser, the only location to get its own spin-off show.
* ''Series/TheRoyleFamily'', right up until "The Queen of Sheba", was set entirely in the Royles' house, and mostly in the living room.

* ''[[Series/{{JAG}} JAG Headquarters]]'' in Falls Church, Virginia has had its fair share of hostage situations, impostors, screaming births and courtroom antics (including assault of counsel and an automatic weapon fired in the courtroom).

* Most of the action in ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon with a Glass Hand]]" was filmed in the Bradbury Building in Los Angeles, the same building used as J.F. Sebastian's home in ''Film/BladeRunner''.
* The action (such as it is) of ''Series/{{Nightingales}}'' never moves out of the office block, and frequently never moves out of a single room.

* ''Pinball/SharkeysShootout'' takes place entirely in Sharkey's exclusive pool hall.

* ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' has all of its action in George and Martha's residence.
* ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'' is set in the Hendrix apartment.

* ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' and ''Broadway Bound'', the first and third installments of Creator/NeilSimon's Eugene trilogy, both take place in the Jerome household.
* ''Theatre/AugustOsageCounty'', which is set in a three-story house, ''built entirely on-stage''.

* Several Creator/DavidMamet plays, most notably ''Theatre/AmericanBuffalo'', and ''Theatre/{{November}}''.
* William Inge's ''Bus Stop'' is set entirely at... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a bus stop.]]
* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' would be the ''only'' Shakespeare play set in one location (the grounds of Elsinore), if not for the brief Act IV, Scene iv. An argument could be made about the graveyard in Act V, Scene i as well. (The Kronborg castle at Elsinore doesn't have a graveyard on its grounds.)
* Anything from the French 17th century. Their theater theory emphasized unity of place; ie the whole play was supposed to take place in a single building, and usually in a single room.
* Variation in ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'', where the action takes place on the street outside of some houses in Rome, none of which are fleshed out beyond what is required for the joke or to fit the front facade.
* ''Theatre/TheMousetrap'': The entire play takes within Monkswell Manor. (Even more specifically, it takes place within the drawing room of Monkswell Manor, with occasional noises off indicating what is happening elsewhere in the house.)

* The ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'' series tends to have these. The original had all its action take place in the Tristram Cathedral and its various basements. ''Diablo 2'' had the Rogue's Monastery.
* Most of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' takes place in Gekkoukan High School/Tartarus. Pretty much all of [[{{UpdatedRerelease}} The Answer]] in ''Persona 3 FES'' takes place [[spoiler: in the SEES dorm]].

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' is a Building of Adventure -- Henry's apartment -- with portals to other worlds.
** With their shifting floor plans, obstacles requiring multi-level detours, and doors that involve elaborate puzzles and bizarre objects to unlock, any large building encountered in any Silent Hill game counts. And that's before you even factor in the monster inhabitants.
* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest''

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'': The Spencer Mansion in Resident Evil and Marcus' Training facility.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'': The majority of the game takes place in the Raccoon City Police Department. You ''do'' eventually leave it, but not until fairly late in the game. And even then, the other location, an underground laboratory, is accessed from a secret tunnel in said police station.
* Series/TheAddamsFamily mansion in the SNES platforming video games.
* The eponymous mansion in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.
* Dr. Edison's manor in ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' and ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle''.
* The Roivas family estate in ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness: Sanity's Requiem''.

* Jasper's adventures begin the moment he sets foot within the gates of ''Website/PuzzleClubhouse''. It helps that the Clubhouse contains [[OhLookMoreRooms an endless variety]] of [[PortalDoor Portal Doors]].
* ''VideoGame/TheTowerOfDruaga''[='=]s eponymous 60-floor tower.
* The entirety of ''VideoGame/SpiderManEdgeOfTime'' takes place in the Alchemax building.
* ''VideoGame/YsOrigin'': Excluding an intro sequence with no combat, the entire game occurs in Darm Tower. The interior is very spacious, with the tower likely having a diameter of a couple thousand feet.

* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' takes place entirely within, and beneath, Castle Brennenberg. ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' takes place mainly in a compound that comprises the protagonist's home, personal chapel, and a massive underground meat processing facility.

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' takes place entirely inside the Oldest House. Well, technically.
* ''VideoGame/CastleForestIslandSea'' is set in a castle. Surrounded by a forest (that you never explore). On an island (which you leave in the ending).

* ''Webcomic/{{Buildingverse}}'' got its name because of this trope. When ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' began it was set in a single apartment building (#JustForFun/FortyTwo). But as the series [[ContinuityCreep progressed]] and the 'verse grow there were more and more things added to the [[CityOfAdventure town]] (First an ExtranormalInstitute (St. Jude University) then restaurants (Sakura Sushi, Convenient Café) etc.), and story lines even outside of that from Oz to Paris. So currently we have a subversion.

* The Galeria Mall in ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''
* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne'': The titular apartment, The Wayne, is the main setting of the series. It's filled with all kinds of secrets and oddities.

* ''VideoGame/MakaiToshiSaGa'' a.k.a. ''Final Fantasy Legend'' takes place in a tower, though due to some reality-bending similar to BiggerOnTheInside four of the levels are worlds in and of themselves. [[spoiler:It makes sense once you learn that the tower's creator is the world's god.]]

* ''Film/TheHouseOfYes'': Takes place within the confines of the titular house.

* Technically, DungeonCrawling games only take place in a single building: the dungeon itself. See the next two examples below.

* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'': The main action of the film happens almost entirely within one very large building.