What building was used in Spectre?

City Hall Building London
The location was used in the latest James bond film 'Spectre' as the offices for C, set within a fictional tower opposite the decaying MI6 building on the River Thames.
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Does the CNS building in Spectre real?

The Centre for National Security Building (CNS) was designed to house the fictional headquarters of the Joint Intelligence Service; a new British intelligence agency formed from a merger of MI6 and MI5.
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What is the glass building in Spectre?

Sölden, Austria: Ice Q

Ice Q, a modernist three-storey glass-and-steel restaurant perched on a snowy crag above the Austrian ski resort of Sölden, is likely to become Spectre's iconic location. This building doubles in Spectre as a private medical clinic and the lair of Bond's nemesis, Blofeld.
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What locations were used in Spectre?

Filming Locations (153)
  • Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  • Mexico City, Mexico (Opening Day of the Dead sequence)
  • Sölden, Austria (Snow scenes)
  • Erfoud, Morocco (SPECTRE lair) (desert)
  • Ice Q Restaurant, Das Central Hotel, Auweg 3, Sölden, Austria (Hoffler Clinic)
  • Tangier, Morocco.
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What building was blown up at the end of Spectre?

The ruins of the SIS building, as seen from the River Thames in Spectre (2015).
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What is the mountain top building in Spectre?

Appropriately named 007 Elements, the building is inside the summit of Gaislachkogl mountain in Sölden, Austria—10,007 feet above sea level. If you've seen Spectre, you'll recognize the location as the home of the Hoffler Klinik, where Bond first meets Dr. Madeleine Swann.
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Why did Blofeld's base explode?

The facility explodes because, just as Bond and Dr. Madeleine Swann are about to run away and miraculously outrun the explosion, Bond fires a single shot from a firearm he took off a henchman after he escaped. The shot is at a pressure gauge on one of the pipes.
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Was Blenheim Palace used in Spectre?

Blenheim Palace is where they filmed James Bond escaping from the Spectre meeting. The actual meeting was filmed in Pinewood studios.
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Where is Blofeld's base in Spectre?

MOROCCO – Gara Medouar Crater near Rissani // Spectre (2015) Deep in the Moroccan desert is an oddly shaped crater – hideout of Bonds nemesis Blofeld.
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Where is the desert house in Spectre?

However, the desert hideout of baddie Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz) had been built up in a crater-like mountain outside of Rissani in southern Morocco. It's one of the most spectacular Spectre movie locations and called Gara Medouar, we visited the place here.
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Is the spa in Spectre real?

The Hoffler Klinik is not a real clinic – but the luxury restaurant “Ice Q”. It is situated 3,048 meters above sea level at Gaislachkogel mountain and has a futurist glass look, iconic Bond set designer Ken Adams would be proud of.
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Where is the spa in Spectre?

Hotel Bergland: Home of James Bond. Sölden and James Bond – the most glamorous winter hotspot in the Alps and the world's most famous secret agent are a match made in heaven. Many of the spectacular action scenes in the blockbuster "Spectre" were filmed in 2015 in the mountains around Sölden.
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Where is the mountain scene in Spectre?

Gaislachkogl gondola

The state-of-the-art middle station of Gaislachkogl Mountain Gondola has become a part of the action movie as well. A couple of film scenes took place in the triple rope gondola on its way up to the peak. Simply enter the panoramic cabin and enjoy a breathtaking mountain gondola ride.
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Is the MI6 Building in Spectre real?

City Hall Building London

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What building is used for MI6 in Spectre?

The building is located at 85, Vauxhall Cross in the south western part of central London, along the Albert Embankment on the bank of the River Thames beside Vauxhall Bridge (Google Maps).
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Is the MI6 Building real?

The characteristic building is the real headquarter of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Thus it also is home to the secret 00-section in numerous Bond films. The MI6 Building is situated in the south western part of London, along the Albert Embankment on the banks of the river Thames.
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Is the meteorite crater in Spectre real?

The Saharan Crater Facility was the fictional headquarters of the terrorist organization SPECTRE during the 2015 James Bond film Spectre. The entire facility, dedicated to sifting through intelligence provided by the "Nine Eyes" programme, was constructed inside a North African meteorite impact crater.
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Is the Kartenhoff meteorite real?

The Kartenhoff is a fictional meteorite (I found few sources about the movie saying so, this is the most comprehensive one). It is not the oldest known to humans, and it didn't make the crater shown in the movie.
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How was Gara Medouar formed?

The wadi starts after the confluence of four ravines, which divide the higher ground into five plateaus; at this confluence is a great circle of rock, surrounded by the overhanging plateaus. There is no source of water.
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Where were the snow scenes in Spectre filmed?

According to Mashable, those snowy scenes were filmed in a small corner of a skiing resort in Austria. Specifically, the tiny village of Obertilliach, which can be found in the Austrian Tyrol, Mashable reported on Dec. 4, 2014.
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Which Bond was filmed at Blenheim?

Spectre at Blenheim Palace

Blenheim also featured in one of the older Bond films, Entrapment, starring Sean Connery.
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What are they filming at Blenheim Palace?

What is the film? The film is a historical biopic focusing on the life of French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte. It was originally titled Kitbag but has now changed its name simply to Napoleon.
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What does M stand for in James Bond?

In the final novel of the series, The Man with the Golden Gun, M's full identity is revealed as Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG; Messervy had been appointed to head of MI6 after his predecessor had been assassinated at his desk.
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Why does Blofeld say cuckoo?

Bond's first encounter with Oberhauser has the villain cry "cuckoo". This is a reference to Bond being a "cuckoo in the nest", the foreigner disrupting the happiness of Oberhauser's family life. Franz Oberhauser is supposed to be the son of the Fleming-created character, Hannes Oberhauser.
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Is Blofeld Madeleine Swann's father?

Though Madeleine told him that Mathilde wasn't his, she ultimately confirms that James is the father when she admits that their daughter does have his eyes.
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