The new US embassy building in London

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KieranTimberlake has won the prestigious project to design the new US Embassy in London.

The Philadelphia-based practice was selected ahead of three Pritzker-Prize winners - Richard Meier (Richard Meier & Partners), Tom Mayne (Morphosis Architects) and IM Pei (PEI Cobb Freed & Partners). The firm’s ‘environmentally friendly’ scheme will be built in Nine Elms close to Battersea Power station.

US Ambassador Louis Susman said: ‘We feel the design concept put forward by Kieran Timberlake best meets the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, secure and efficient embassy for the 21st Century. It was also the most environmentally friendly of the four projects.’

Source for text and following pics: The Architects Journal

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I think that it's ... well, not the latest in design and architecture.

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@Walter Hinteler,

It does not seem to fit in very well with it surroundings.

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@BillRM,

I cannot imagine surroundings it would fit well with.

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@roger,

Reminds me of a pineapple. A square pineapple.

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@Irishk,

An excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin freedom! Wink

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@roger,

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I cannot imagine surroundings it would fit well with.

Let see in the middle of the burned out city center of Detroit?

On the moon?

A small island about to go under the sea from the effects of global warming?

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Perhaps they just haven't unpacked it yet -- it looks like it's wrapped in square-ish bubble wrap.

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Interesting, that one presentation that showed it reflecting surroundings..

I don't love it, I don't hate it.

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@ossobuco,

At least it seems to be sited with like minded buildings so it doesn't seem to clash with its neighbors.

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It has a moat! We drove by the old one (current one, I guess) when we were there a few years ago. It was sad to see the blast barriers. The moat will negate the need for those, I guess.

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@Irishk,

That moat is merely aesthetics! All it takes is one kamakazie duck boat and kabloomie!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2704112672_ae76f98efe.jpg?v=0

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LOL tsar! The pineapple is going to run a cool $1B so it'd better be duck boat-proof or else!

(And don't we all know that $1B is just a low-ball guestimate?)

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@Walter Hinteler,

It does have sort of an "environmentally friendly" look about it. No parking spaces. How green can you get?

The new US embassy building in London

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