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US London embassy gets glass-cube look
Not local, but interesting.
Philadelphia-based architects Kieran Timberlake have won the competition to build a new US Embassy in London, with a design that concentrates on environmental issues, Louis B. Sussman, US ambassador to London, announced on Tuesday.
The victorious design, to be built in Nine Elms on the southern bank of the Thames, combines energy efficiency with improvements to the post-industrial landscape of one of London’s last big undeveloped city-centre sites.
It consists of a glass cube sheathed in a stretched, sculptural membrane embedded with gossamer-fine photovoltaic cells. This crystalline second skin both shades the interior from the sun and converts the sun’s rays into power in one of the multiple measures to make this an exemplary green building.
Read the full story at the FT...........
Philadelphia-based architects Kieran Timberlake have won the competition to build a new US Embassy in London, with a design that concentrates on environmental issues, Louis B. Sussman, US ambassador to London, announced on Tuesday.
The victorious design, to be built in Nine Elms on the southern bank of the Thames, combines energy efficiency with improvements to the post-industrial landscape of one of London’s last big undeveloped city-centre sites.
It consists of a glass cube sheathed in a stretched, sculptural membrane embedded with gossamer-fine photovoltaic cells. This crystalline second skin both shades the interior from the sun and converts the sun’s rays into power in one of the multiple measures to make this an exemplary green building.
Read the full story at the FT...........
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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They can pay for the architects fees out of the three million they owe Londoners from not paying the congestion charge.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Camp X-Ray style ?
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A tempting target during their next overseas adventure - and so much easier to get at than Grosvenor Square in '68.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Well, I suppose if you let the man who did a duet with Janet Jackson design a building, this is what you get.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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In these days of the www and instant communication, I wonder why they need such a large building.. ?and an ugly one at that.. (If you've run out of ideas.. use glass) perhaps room for all the secret service staff they base in London?..
The americans seem to have a different embassy strategy in London, to the one they forced through in Berlin, where they imagined they could instigate a road diversion right in the centre of the city for safety reasons.. The City refused and offered them (more suburban) sites which they didn't want.. unlike in London where they've chosen a more down market area than Mayfair..
Who'd have thought during the riots of 1968, that they'd someday relocate to what was then run down Battersea..
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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It looks like a glass keep with a moat and drawbridge. Peasants.
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