Original director Alex Proyas wanted something unusual for the design of Whipstaff Manor. Production designer Leslie Dilley suggested up front that they should go with a haunted house that's not the usual nineteenth century Victorian design, and designed the Manor based on the style of Antoni Gaudí, a 19th century modernist architect. Whipstaff Manor is primarily inspired by Gaudi's Casa Batlló, a house he designed in Barcelona: the outside of Whipstaff echoes the famous undulating exterior of Batlló with the "whale jaw" balconies the painted diamond "tiling" seen inside the entry mirrors the "dragon scale" roof of Batlló the main room borrows directly from the unique stained glass, woodwork, and organic shapes found on the Noble Floor of Batlló and the swirled ceiling seen in Whipstaff Manor is an almost identical replica of the ceiling in Batlló.

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