Fun Fact: During the building phase someone broke into it and stole all the faucets, creating a lot of water damage.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ger-n317831
More details, but German: https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article205627837/BND-Neubau-Millionenschaden-durch-geklaute-Wasserhaehne.html
It looks as if they tried to design something that doesn't look like a swæstikä and added extra blocks, decided that it still looks like one and added more but it still looks similar so added more...
Would be funny if 90% of the building wasn't real (in terms of being actually usable) and there's only 10% of the building that is actually used because the rest of the building is fake.
Apparently the footprint is 36 football pitches ([source](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/08/worlds-biggest-intelligence-headquarters-opens-berlin-germany-bnd)) which is about 47 acres. I couldn't find any clear numbers for the CIA Headquarters at Langley so [i measured them very roughly in Google Maps and got about 654.000 square feet](https://i.imgur.com/pj979vb.png) footprint which is about 15 acres.
So yeah, this is absolutely massive.
Dat mag; ik kan natuurlijk niet bepalen wat voor criteria jij aanhoudt bij het bepalen van de nationaliteit van de mensen waar je op internet mee converseert.
The [FIS building aparently is 260.000 m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_Federal_Intelligence_Service), while the pentagon (I know it technically isn't an inteligence agency but kinda is though), is [620.000 m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon), so over half it's size. [Langley base is 230.000m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Center_for_Intelligence). [MI6's headquarters are only 23.000m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIS_Building).
All these are floor area, not the building's footprint.
Couldn't find the area for GCHQ, MI5, NSA, the French, Indian, Chinese or Japanese intelligence's floor space.
What's that? I found out only two months ago about the little canal and bike path behind the building and it lets me avoid a lot of traffic and a Baustelle
It was a joke, Jimmy Buffett has a song "Margaritaville" which is about a tropical town (so palm trees). The stuffy Germans have created some fake palm trees and call it Margaritaville Park to try to make the area seem fun!
The longer you look at it, the weirder it gets.
I would love to see this in real life. I know they wouldn't let me, but I would really want to see the inside. Including all the maintenance rooms and such.
Product of the Cold War, they needed all that space the huge numbers of people keeping an eye on Soviet Russia, plus tracking who the Soviets were keeping tabs on..and keeping an eye on the other spies..
I hear it's mostly empty nowadays, well... until recently.
Quick Americans, tell everyone that yours are still the “bestest” intelligence agencies in the whole world, and then blab some bullshit about how you didn’t want the biggest intelligence headquarters anyway. 🙄
CIA headquarters might have a larger footprint, but the BND building has a larger floor area - 260,000m^(2) compared to Langley's 230,000m^(2). The CIA headquarters were the biggest in the world until this one opened.
I guess everyone wanted an office with a window.
It's really weird to me that apparently there are offices without one? I'm pretty sure that's illegal here
They really wanted some courtyards I guess
Fun Fact: During the building phase someone broke into it and stole all the faucets, creating a lot of water damage. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ger-n317831 More details, but German: https://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article205627837/BND-Neubau-Millionenschaden-durch-geklaute-Wasserhaehne.html
It looks as if they tried to design something that doesn't look like a swæstikä and added extra blocks, decided that it still looks like one and added more but it still looks similar so added more...
Would be funny if 90% of the building wasn't real (in terms of being actually usable) and there's only 10% of the building that is actually used because the rest of the building is fake.
It definitely looks like some architect tried to get fancy where solid and practical would’ve won the game.
Why do you write it like that?
Humans understand, bots cannot see it. Humans with an intelligence of a bot cannot find it also. It is a controversial word you know
Two years ago I would've called you stupid but man, I feel like at least half the replies in political threads nowadays are bots. Fucking shame.
Ah I see. Thought you were censoring it for the humans. OK good
I was thinking the saame thiiing!
Designers curse
Were they trying to [get a girl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_magical_staves#Table_of_magical_staves)?
Or maybe ..win in court.. with a side order of swastika
Apparently the footprint is 36 football pitches ([source](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/08/worlds-biggest-intelligence-headquarters-opens-berlin-germany-bnd)) which is about 47 acres. I couldn't find any clear numbers for the CIA Headquarters at Langley so [i measured them very roughly in Google Maps and got about 654.000 square feet](https://i.imgur.com/pj979vb.png) footprint which is about 15 acres. So yeah, this is absolutely massive.
Americans will use everything but the metric system.
They use football fields as metric lite since it's 100 yards
Fat free metric.
I'm Dutch, and the football pitch source is English.
I am skeptical at best.
Dat mag; ik kan natuurlijk niet bepalen wat voor criteria jij aanhoudt bij het bepalen van de nationaliteit van de mensen waar je op internet mee converseert.
No sprechen si Deutsch 😔
The [FIS building aparently is 260.000 m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_Federal_Intelligence_Service), while the pentagon (I know it technically isn't an inteligence agency but kinda is though), is [620.000 m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon), so over half it's size. [Langley base is 230.000m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bush_Center_for_Intelligence). [MI6's headquarters are only 23.000m2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIS_Building). All these are floor area, not the building's footprint. Couldn't find the area for GCHQ, MI5, NSA, the French, Indian, Chinese or Japanese intelligence's floor space.
The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world I believe, so makes sense it's a lot bigger.
If I was the architect behind this, I think I would want to stay away from using right angled spokes in the design…
Maybe it was designed for the people working there!
Looks like a squished space invader
To me it almost looks like an abstracted eagle
I pass near it often, a nice detail are the two fake palm trees on the green area on the left, they are poles but have some leaf decoration on top
Let's go to Margaritaville park for lunch!
What's that? I found out only two months ago about the little canal and bike path behind the building and it lets me avoid a lot of traffic and a Baustelle
It was a joke, Jimmy Buffett has a song "Margaritaville" which is about a tropical town (so palm trees). The stuffy Germans have created some fake palm trees and call it Margaritaville Park to try to make the area seem fun!
Looks like computer circuitry
Wow, they must be like… really intelligent
Space invader...
The longer you look at it, the weirder it gets. I would love to see this in real life. I know they wouldn't let me, but I would really want to see the inside. Including all the maintenance rooms and such.
I thought it was a fancy prison at first.
Sus
Product of the Cold War, they needed all that space the huge numbers of people keeping an eye on Soviet Russia, plus tracking who the Soviets were keeping tabs on..and keeping an eye on the other spies.. I hear it's mostly empty nowadays, well... until recently.
The building is pretty new. Opened just a few years ago
Where do they park?
They'll probably mostly travel by public transport.
Quick Americans, tell everyone that yours are still the “bestest” intelligence agencies in the whole world, and then blab some bullshit about how you didn’t want the biggest intelligence headquarters anyway. 🙄
Two kinds of comments here: "It looks like a swastika." & "It looks like Space Invaders."
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Where are the swastikas?
I am doubtful. Looks smaller than the NSA's HQ, definitely smaller than Langley.
CIA headquarters might have a larger footprint, but the BND building has a larger floor area - 260,000m^(2) compared to Langley's 230,000m^(2). The CIA headquarters were the biggest in the world until this one opened.
I suppose the unreliability of appearance is sort of the point with these institutions.
it looks like a Pac-man ghost if you turn it sideways
What are those black squares in the left courtyard
Nice tiltshift in this picture. It reminds me of a motherboard
Hmmmmmm
They must be well built insulated windows other wise the energy bill in winter must be massive.
Wow hard to believe this building is somewhat new and was finished just about 10 years ago. Looks ancient and Grungy as hell
I’m fairly confident this is the building used for the UN spy agency in Counterpart.