Chris: There's corporations out there creating viruses turning people into bioweapons.
People like you and me. Your friends. Family. There will come a day when you'll be faced with a decision. Kill them or be killed. Doesn't sound very heroic, does it?
It’s officially called the SIS Building (Secret Intelligence Service), but everyone refers to it as the MI6 building. (Not to be confused with the MI5 building across the water on Millbank, which must surely be linked via a secret underwater tunnel. Surely.) As though to reflect the serious, clandestine nature of its inhabitants, the good ship SIS is a lot more restrained in its postmodern playfulness. No primary colour splashes or Lego-like arches here. This building is all about power and impregnability. A fortress of spies. And it has found itself under siege. In 2000, the edifice was slightly scratched by a dissident IRA rocket attack. Fictional baddies had more success in the film Skyfall, in which the upper floors of the building met a fiery end. In both cases, the grudge was with the intelligence services rather than any intended slight to postmodern architecture.
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10. The SIS Building, Vauxhall
10.ザ シス ビル、ヴィクソール
The MI6 building at Vauxhall, also known as the SIS building.
ヴィクソールのMI6のビルは、シスビルディングとして知られている。
ヴォクソールにあるMI6のビル、通称SISビル。
White and green stepped block.
白と緑がステップしたブロックだ。 白と緑の階段状のブロック。 It’s officially called the SIS Building (Secret Intelligence Service), but everyone refers to it as the MI6 building.
It's maybe a thinly veiled metaphor for real world politics, or a story that uses them as inspiration for its own story, but its also just mostly a snooze.
A perfectly serviceable extra slice of game-canon Resi but it won't blow you away or surprise you. It's fine if you're a fan, otherwise give it a miss.
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness introduces a number of ugly truths about both its heroes and its villains that reinforce how precarious a situation the world is in.
Worth watching if you're a fan of the RE series. I feel like it was a fun experience, but it was too short, felt rushed, and with an underdeveloped story. Could have been better, but it's not *bad* by any means.
Only kidding. This is not one of London’s best postmodern buildings. But it was opened by Glenda Jackson… who turned down the role of M in the James Bond franchise… which is a neat link to...
The Isle of Dogs is a happy hunting ground for postmodern architecture. This is unsurprising. The still-continuing construction boom on the peninsula began in the late 80s just as postmodernism was peaking. The Limehouse Link skirts the northern boundaries of the area, and was the most expensive road scheme in Britain (per mile) when it opened in 1993. Either end is guarded by these imposing portals. They look like someone’s disassembled No 1 Poultry and Charing Cross station, then reassembled the pieces into the postmodern equivalent of a brick shithouse. The bulky twins are lightened with artwork, including the abstract piece by Nigel Hall shown above.
They look like someone’s disassembled No 1 Poultry and Charing Cross station, then reassembled the pieces into the postmodern equivalent of a brick shithouse.
