If Hans Scharoun would still be alive today and continuing to live in Berlin he would undoubtedly have taken a back seat to architecture and been offered the chair as the director of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). As with all seats of power that now attends to a new headquarters on Chausee Strasse in Mitte, Berlin, as designed by the architects Kleihues + Kleihues, a directors house would undoubtedly need to be established to embellish this intelligence centre, fitting for Hans in his renewed autumn years. As much a metaphor, as a living memory, of what architecture can become when there is a lead to the idea of german federal intelligence.