Editing SIS Building (section)

{{Short description|Government office building in London, England}}
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*MI6 Building<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/937298.stm|title=MI6 attack weapon identified|date=22 September 2000|access-date=12 March 2015|publisher=BBC News|quote=Police are continuing extensive searches of the area around the MI6 building}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/934937.stm|title='Rocket' theory over MI6 blast|date=21 September 2000|access-date=12 March 2015|publisher=BBC News|quote=Police are searching all areas around the MI6 building}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/mi6-building-is-rocked-by-two-explosions-698855.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421075327/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/mi6-building-is-rocked-by-two-explosions-698855.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 April 2009|first=Kate|last=Watson-Smyth|date=21 September 2000|access-date=12 March 2015|work=The Independent|title=MI6 Building is Rocked by Two Explosions|quote=Two explosions rocked the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, central London, last night.}}</ref>
*Legoland<ref>{{cite web|title=Spooks on Stella|work=The Guardian|url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1235335,00.html|date=10 June 2004|access-date=17 June 2008}}</ref>
*Ceaușescu Towers<ref name=TelegSep2300>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1356363/The-very-public-face-of-the-secret-service.html|title=The very public face of the secret service|author=Philip Johnston|date=22 September 2000|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=9 November 2014}}</ref>
*Babylon-on-Thames<ref name=Newsweek00>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/85968|title=Mission: Possible|author=Carla Power|author-link=Carla Power|date=22 September 2000|work=Newsweek|access-date=11 November 2014}}</ref>
*Vauxhall Trollop<ref name=TelegSep2400>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4255238/One-in-the-eye-for-the-Vauxhall-Trollop.html|title=One in the eye for the Vauxhall Trollop|author=Alan Judd|author-link=Alan Judd|date=24 September 2000|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=9 November 2014}}</ref>
*The Ziggurat<ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonist.com/2011/11/top-10-spy-sites-in-london|title=Top 10 Spy Sites in London|date=22 November 2011|website=londonist.com}}</ref>}}
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| caption          = SIS Building viewed from [[Millbank]] with the [[River Thames]] in the foreground
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| client           = [[Secret Intelligence Service]]
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| address          = 85 [[Albert Embankment]], [[Vauxhall]], [[London Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]]
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| completion_date  = April 1994
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| main_contractor  = [[John Laing plc]]
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The '''SIS Building''', also called the '''MI6 Building''', at '''Vauxhall Cross''' houses the headquarters of the [[Secret Intelligence Service]] (SIS), also known as Military Intelligence, Section 6 ([[MI6]]), the United Kingdom's foreign intelligence agency.  It is located at 85 [[Albert Embankment]] in [[Vauxhall]], London, on the bank of the [[River Thames]] beside [[Vauxhall Bridge]]. The building has been the headquarters of the SIS since 1994.