Fanum House is the headquarters of the Automobile Association in Basingstoke, in the English county of Hampshire. It is one of several current and former AA buildings named "Fanum House" around the country. The original headquarters in Leicester Square, London, was also called Fanum House, "Fanum" being the call sign of the AA. Early years The AA took advantage of 1960s government incentives to move from their London HQ to the rapidly expanding town of Basingstoke. The building was completed in 1972 and AA employees moved in at that point. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973. It is an 83-metre (274 feet), eighteen-storey building (seventeen floors of offices plus a viewing gallery on top). Location Fanum House is clearly visible from the M3 motorway and from the A30 approaching Basingstoke. Fanum is a Latin word for "temple", and was chosen to reflect the AA's status as the UK's premier motor breakdown company. The Skyline Plaza development in the town centre replaced Fanum House as the tallest building in Basingstoke when it was extended from 61 metres to 85 metres, with the addition of three floors in 2009. Fanum House today The seventeenth floor was originally executive offices with its own bar but is now the same layout as the other floors in the tower block. There was also a bar in the second-floor canteen when the building first opened, though this closed some years ago. There is no floor 1; the ground floor is known as "Upper Ground", while the basement floor (about half the size of the floors in the tower block) is known as "Lower Ground". The first floor up from Upper Ground is Floor 2. The Upper Ground floor is much larger than the floors in the tower block, with a large open-plan flat-roof office area, a coffee bar, shop, learning centre and a theatre which is used for company presentations. The building also has a large covered car park, notorious with employees for its very narrow parking spaces. This is due to the increase in the average size of cars since it was built, a common problem for older car parks in the UK. There is a covered connecting walkway from the car park to the Upper Ground floor. Floor 10 is not regular offices, as it is mainly a power supply and building control area. Part of it is office space