In 2011 , architect Armin Blasbichler asked his 21 architecture students at the University of Innsbruck to be after bank heist because , as he say , “ architects have a specific view on buildings and organizational structure — on how affair relate together , imperfect points and strong peak . ”
Armin Blasbichler ’s students presenting their heist plan . Courtesy of Armin Blasbichler .
Blasbichler certainly was n’t the first to think of a heist as architectural or esthetic practice . As far as we know , Janice Kerbelwas the first artist to do it — she meticulously planned out her stickup on a London Bank and detailed it in an exposition andbook .
But source and film writer did it long before she did ( though peradventure not as meticulously ) . In this week ’s episode we calculate a three different heists with designs that go from the spectacularly complicated to the deceivingly simple .
Heist #1: Under Black Carpets.
Courtesy of Ilona Gaynor
Ilona Gaynor is a architect and creative person based in London whose workplace was influenced by the artist , Janice Kerbel . She designed an intricate holdup set in Los Angeles , California because she ’s interested in the “ feedback eyelet ” that fall out between real - sprightliness armed robbery and those in Hollywood movies .
From about 1960 to 2000 , L.A. was the banking concern robbery capital of the world . In the tough years there were more than 2,500 robbery a yr in L.A. ; that ’s about one robbery every 45 minutes of the forge day . In 1983 , L.A. had more robbery than the next four high cities ( New York , San Francisco , Portland , Oregon and Sacramento ) combined .
L.A. ’s banking concern robbery statistics are now much less jaw - dropping ; in 2013 there were only 212 reported robberies . Some have conjectured that the forcible layout of L.A. played a role in making it the depository financial institution robbery capital of the world for several decades . Gaynor thinks it may have had something to do with the “ intrinsic pulling of Hollywood on everything hold to do with the iconography of a heist . ”
In the spirit of the Hollywood - style heist , Gaynor ’s heist is meant to be a spectacle .
It begin with a sheet doss into the high - rise , One Wilshire(a building that domiciliate estimator servers ) in L.A. As emergency responders are busybodied with this distraction , five bank in the contiguous surrounding country are being hook . Gaynor ’s plan need drilling concentric rotary into the bank , pulling out the hurdle , and loading them onto a motortruck .
When her oeuvre is finished , it will consist of model reconstructive memory ( like those pictured above ) , brusque - films , sculpture and photographic print that re - severalise the narrative of the heist . In 2013 she ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund her work .
Heist #2: Inside Man.
In the early 2000s , Russell Gewirtz was n’t a author , he had n’t been to film shoal and he had nothing to do with Hollywood . He was just a guy rope , work real estate , who liked thinking about the “ pure rip-off ” as he walked past an empty depository financial institution on his way of life to work every day .
Russell Gewirtz on the set of Inside Man . Photo good manners of Russell Gewirtz .
Gewirtz decided that the complete heist could be done by groom the hostages up like the robbers so that when it was all over , the police force would n’t be able-bodied to say who was who .
The hostages put on the same outfits that the robber are tire out in Inside Man .
The surety / robber switcharoo was clever but Gewirtz knew he still require a way for the robbers to get their stolen goods out of the bank . The stolen trade good could n’t go out with the hostage / robbers , so he decided to have the robber literally establish a solvent . They reconstruct a small cell with a faux wall conceal behind some shelves in the cellar of the bank . One of the robbers detain hidden in this cell for a full workweek until the constabulary are done gather evidence .
Clive Owen in the “ cell ” where his character hides with the stolen good .
Heist #3: Choir Boy Robber.
The heists designed by Gaynor and Gewirtz are both extremely complicated and involve multiple musician and a lot of moving parts . In other news , their design leave open a luck of fortune for things to go wrong .
Sometimes simple is serious .
Tom Justice ’s design was to go to a bank alone , go up a storyteller , introduce a note saying this is a robbery , and walk out without a luck of fanfare — which , according to FBI statistics , is how most money box looting happen . And unlike the former two designer , Justice actually convey his out in substantial sprightliness .
The FBI cry Justice the “ Choir Boy Robber ” because he always folded his hands and set them on the counter and kept his school principal somewhat bow down .
Tom Justice say he keep his hands folded to put tellers at ease . Courtesy of Tom Justice .
Before his first few bank looting , Justice practiced obsessively . His bicycle was his get - away vehicle , and so the first matter he ’d do was figure out where he was going to leave the bike ( unbarred ) while he was inside rob the bank . From there , he counted measure , watch constabulary rule and made note for months before actually bear through with the robbery .
Over the course of four years , Justice stole close to 130,000 dollar bill from 26 bank in Illinois , California and Wisconsin .
Courtesy of Tom Justice
In his last few looting , Justice did less planning and stopped maintain local police force pattern . While pull up stakes the scene of his last looting , he was questioned by a police officeholder and had to ditch his custom - made racing cycle ( above ) and abscond on foot . They did n’t find Justice , but they constitute the bike , which they in the end traced back to him . Tom Justice pass nine days in prison house and was released in 2010 .
Heat:
This 1995 moving-picture show from director Michael Mann come up again and again in interviewing people for this story . Everyone in this level named Heat as their favorite heist movie . Justice said , “ in prison house , Heat is the issue one pic amongst inmate . ”
In 1997 there was an actual looting on a Bank of America that unfolded in a manner that seemed to some people ( include artist Ilona Gaynor ) to be suspiciously exchangeable to the events in Heat . As in Heat , the “ North Hollywood Shoot - Out ” ended in violent telephone exchange of gunfire between the robber and law .
99 % Invisible producer Katie Mingle spoke with artist Ilona Gaynor , screenwriter Russell Gewirtz , and Tom Justice . Thanks also toJanice KerbelandArmin Blasbichler .
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This posthas been republished with permission fromRoman Mars . It was to begin with issue on99 % Invisible ’s web log , which accompany each podcast .
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