Library Addenda

Joel Anderson notes the following:

It is worth noting that Senate House is also the seat of power in the McKellen Richard III, and - more incongruously - is the location for Bertie Wooster's New York apartment block (I think it's also used for the interior) in seasons 3 and 4 of Jeeves and Wooster. I had no idea about the original plans for the site, but I am all for it, and I think eating Malet Street would be an excellent idea (RADA's theatre and ULU would both go!). It always looks to me, from a certain vantage point on Russell Square, as if the buildings are about to eat one another anyway, or like a pre-cgi dinosaur battle: Birkbeck v. Senate House. In fact, it turns out they are. And, if rumours can be believed, UCL is about to eat both of them.

You are right, also, about the BN. Even more than Alphaville, the interior (as you go down the ominous escalator with chainmail-clad walls, always alone), looks like the underground world of La Jettée (with a little bit of Metropolis, although the Ligne 14 Metro stations - part of the same project as the BN - are more Langian still). Incidentally, Orly - as depicted in the first shots of La Jeteé - is a very fine, and rather modernist, airport, possibly because it has jetties and not terminals. A shame that it's miles away from everything, doesn't serve any places one would like to visit, and - er - is an airport.
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