Gallery: Realistic CG Renderings That Let You Explore Secret Government Sites

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    Seamless Transitions, a new work by James Bridle, visualizes secret sites of the the UK immigration system. Here, Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, at Heathrow airport.
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    Bridle teamed with architecture visualization studio Picture Plane to create the images. Here, a private terminal at Stansted airport where aslyum-seekers are deported.
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    Inside the Stansted terminal.
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    The Special Immigration Appeals Commission courtroom, which facilitates the presentation of secret evidence.
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    Invisibility, Brindle writes, "is what sustains the system, even as it corrupts it."
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