Lawrence Hall, Royal Horticultural Halls, 80 Vincent Square, SW1
Nazis in Westminster? On the corner of Greycoat Street and Elverton Street you can see the twenties deco lettering of the New Royal Horticultural Hall. If there’s an exhibition, take the opportunity to look inside at the brutalist concrete arches.
In Indiana Jones And the Last Crusade it's ‘Berlin Airport’, where Indy (Harrison Ford) and his dad (Sean Connery) board the dirigible. It became ‘Berlin’ again, in the present as the ‘cosy transit lounge’ of ‘Templehof’ airport, where Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), in the guise of fey Bruno, meets up with Boris the Spider, in Phillip Noyce’s 1997 film of The Saint.
A gift for location scouts needing a backdrop for fascist rallies, it’s here that rockstar Pink (Bob Geldof) performs for ranks of ugly skinheads in Alan Parker’s film of Pink Floyd –The Wall, and that King Richard (Ian McKellen) addresses a jackbooted mob in Richard Loncraine’s thirties-set version of Shakespeare’s Richard III. The hall was also transformed into the severe museum of art where Frank (Rufus Sewell) tries to prove to Martha (Monica Potter) that art galleries are no more than pick-up joints for pretentious phonies, in the 1998 rom-com Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. Agent Cody demonstrates his proficiency on the clarinet at a rehearsal in the hall in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
And more recently, it became the glum ‘Ministry of Power’, where Theo Faron (Clive Owen) works in Alfonso Cuarón's film of PD James’s Children Of Men.
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (1989, dir: Steven Spielberg)
The Saint (1997, dir: Phillip Noyce)
Pink Floyd –The Wall (1982, dir: Alan Parker)
Richard III (1995, dir: Richard Loncraine)
Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence (1998, dir: Nick Hamm)
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004, dir: Kevin Allen)
Children Of Men (2006, dir: Alfonso Cuarón)
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