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The SIS Building under construction during 1991. Regalian approached the government in 1987 to assess their interest in the proposed building. [12] In 1988 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher approved the purchase of the new building for the SIS. The NAO put the final cost at £135.05 million for site purchase and the basic building or £152.6 ...
On Wednesday 20 September 2000, the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) carried out an attack on MI6's SIS Building headquarters in Vauxhall, Lambeth, London.A Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank rocket, fired 300 metres (330 yards) away from MI6 headquarters, struck the building on the south side of the eighth floor, causing superficial damage.
Some of SIS's actions since the 2000s have attracted significant controversy, such as its alleged complicity in acts of enhanced interrogation techniques and extraordinary rendition. [9] [10] Since 1994, SIS headquarters have been in the SIS Building in London, on the South Bank of the River Thames. [11]
Century House, London is a 22-storey building located at 100 Westminster Bridge Road in London. The building was designed by P. M. Devereux and constructed between 1959 and 1964. [ 1 ] It became the home of the Secret Intelligence Service following their move from 54 Broadway in 1964.
Albert Embankment, including the SIS Building (right), pictured from Millbank in 2008. Sturgeon lamp standards line the embankment. Westminster Tower on the north end of the Albert Embankment. Albert Embankment is part of the river bank on the south side of the River Thames in Central London.
125 London Wall, also known as Alban Gate, is a postmodernist building on London Wall in the City of London.Along with Embankment Place and Vauxhall Cross (the SIS Building), it has been described as one of the three projects that established designer Sir Terry Farrell's reputation in the late 1980s-to-early 1990s period. [1]
Thames House is an office building in Millbank, London, on the north bank of the River Thames adjacent to Lambeth Bridge.Originally used as offices by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), it has served as the headquarters of the United Kingdom's internal Security Service (commonly known as MI5) since December 1994.
In London outdoor footage was shot of the SIS Building and Vauxhall Cross with several weeks filming the boat chase on the River Thames eastwards towards the Millennium Dome, Greenwich. [22] The canal footage of the chase where Bond soaks the parking wardens was filmed at Wapping and the boat stunts in Millwall Dock and under Glengall Bridge ...