Cherryflapjack

By Cherryflapjack

The old Motorola Building, Swindon.

Another Swindon landmark building- and another James Bond connection. The high-tech exposed steelwork and roof-level services tube at 5.5m diameter is big enough to drive a car through, and proved irrestible to the producers of the Bond film 'The World Is Not Enough', starring Pierce Brosnan, who filmed at the location in 1999 using the factory as a double for a Turkey oil refinery.

The Motorola building won the award for best industrial building in the 1999 Structural Steel Design Awards and was highly commended in the British Construction Industry Awards.

Manufacturing of mobile phones ceased at the site in 2001, and the building is now owned by Vygon- a supplier of medical and surgical disposables.

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