122 Leadenhall Street

By 2013, 122 Leadenhall Street was a skyscraper with a slanted side, located on Leadenhall Street in the City of London.
By one account, the skyscraper located on the site had an Art Deco architectural style, which was used by UNIT for their headquarters in 2022. (TV: )
== History ==
In 2013, the helicopter transporting the Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS flew past the skyscraper. (TV: )
Around the mid-2010s, whilst Clara Oswald hung outside the doors of the TARDIS in the skies above London when searching for the Trap Street, she was near the Shard, Tower Bridge, 122 Leadenhall Street and the City of London. (TV: )
In 2017, the Monks' Cathedral was located in the City of London near 122 Leadenhall Street. (TV: )
The A Charitable Earth headquarters were located on the other side of the River Thames from 122 Leadenhall Street by the late 2010s. (WC: )
By 2022, 122 Leadenhall Street was leased to Kate Stewart of UNIT for their headquarters. However, Kate and Tegan Jovanka soon had to activate the structural termination system to implode the building and entomb the Cyber-Warriors lead by a cloned Ashad, during the Master's Dalek Plan. (TV: )
However, by November 2023, (PROSE: ) a new headquarters with a helipad was constructed in the approximate area of 122 Leadenhall Street, which had inexplicably returned. (TV: , )
== Behind the scenes ==
Opened in July 2014 but constructed during the preceding three years, the Leadenhall Building at 122 Leadenhall Street has been present in many Doctor Who episodes in establishing shots and scenes set in London's skies, although it never had any narrative significance, unlike other London skyscrapers such as the Gherkin or One Canada Square.
However, this changed with 2022's . Through digital SFX, the skyscraper was transformed into the Art Deco skyscraper which became UNIT's headquarters. While this particular building had never been seen in previous stories — such as the 2019 mini-episode set in the late 2010s, for a chronologically close example — the onscreen geography was mostly faithful to the real location, with Leadenhall Street being seen below Ace when she parachuted from the top of the skyscraper. However, the scene ostensibly set outside the building after its destruction is clearly a different location, as it was filmed at West Bute Street, Cardiff.
Matters became even messier with and , released a year later in 2023, which not only showed that the real Leadenhall Building had returned, but that the new UNIT HQ was logically located in the middle of Leadenhall Street, as it didn't replace any of the real buildings but was sandwiched between them; it can be seen that and are located to the immediate area east, the Leadenhall Building north, the and to the south, and the construction site of to the west.
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