- The Black Mesa facility was apparently built over several decommissioned ICBM launching and testing silo complexes probably constructed during the1950s, which was converted into a vast civilian institute for the research of almost every conceivable scientific discipline. Some areas are also described by characters as "old" or "abandoned"; several areas of the complex are badly run-down despite the obvious fact that they are still in use. However the surface areas of Black Mesa feature more modern construction. All main Sectors are linked together by the Black Mesa Transit System, the monorail network going through the whole facility.
The Black Mesa Facility was built within and around buildings from the 1950's, and has technology within dating back from then. But I am looking 30 Years on from the incident in 2000 and something, so some parts of the place are very old and it abandonment and bombing will have led to most of it becoming derelict and destroyed.
The first thing that come to my mind when I thought of what to look at for an old derelict science building was Chernobyl. So I looked up a few images of it, it was abandoned in the 60's after the nuclear reactor became unstable and exploded. Below is one of the control stations when it was in use, to me it looks like something out of star wars. Below that is what it looks like now, which is what I imagine Black Mesa would look like.
The video above shows lots of footage of chernobyl, and its state of Decay. I found this on the guardian website it was really interesting.
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