What do you Think of the New US Embassy Design for London?
February 23rd, 2010The architectural firm Kieran Timberlake based in Philadelphia was just allowed to release their new design for the new $1 billion dollar US Embassy slated to be built in London to replace the existing embassy in the ritzy Mayfair area of London. The new embassy was designed to use the landscape as a very important security feature. The use of moats, hills and the fact that it will be set back from any roads will allow the new embassy to have an appealing exterior with gardens and fields, which is a departure from the bunker-esque look of the old embassy. Some are criticizing the design because it is far off the beaten path when compared with the location of the main part of London, while others are praising the designs use of low-key, yet highly effective security measures. What do you think of the new design?
Here are some images of the new design taken from usembassy.org.uk. Click on any image for a larger version:
Old US Embassy in London
View from Nine Elms Lane
View from Consular Plaza
Main Lobby
Cafeteria
View from east
View from Embassy Park
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Yes, I was sent this design by a friend. I am sorry but I could not believe such a monolith could be accepted by the Planning Staff !!!
I am sure we have not heard the end of this saga !!!!!
Back to the drawing board please…
Am curious what will happen after they move the US embassy from The Hague to Wassenaar in The Netherlands. Old embassy is a Marcel Breuer building (one of only 2 in NL) new??
Looks like you can just swim up to it, if you really wanted to bomb it or some thing.
ugh – that is truly nasty i hope that is a joke (if not, it will be)
Fortress America
A little flashy, won’t be received too well
is this mortifying, gigantic, waste of a billion dollars, really THAT necessary…there are many MANY other obligations this money could have gone towards than this over done extravagant building…but not to be stereotypical or anything…of course the U.S. would waste money on such a obscure building.
The building looks like a square box fortress. You would think that the Americans could come up with some better architecture to show the world.
Ben Koshkin
after the last few years- we don’t want you here anyway- don’t build your hi-tec fortress of paranoia, we have been banned from Grosvenor Square too many times to want you in London.