MI6 Building by Dun.can licensed under the terms of the CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the MI6 Building in London, England.
You may know this one better as the “James Bond” building. It’s been depicted in The World Is Not Enough, Skyfall and most recently as a ruin in Spectre.
What you may not know is that this oddly-designed building really does house the British Secret Intelligence Service.
A mishmash of structures and styles, its stepped layout results in 60 different rooftop areas.
As you might expect from an intelligence agency building, also it has a number of security features. It has triple-glazed windows, a huge basement filled with underground corridors, and—get this—not one, but two moats! Someone let the Brits know that medieval castle defenses probably aren’t so effective anymore.
