Planned US Embassy Looks Like a Fort

Written by Pat's Papers | Wednesday, 24 February 2010 7:48 AM

There’s a great architecture review in the New York Times this morning. It’s of the planned US Embassy in London. The Times describes the proposed building as bland. But what’s actually quite clever is how they’ve designed a park and moat around it to secure the building, without making it look like a fortress.

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Click here to view the design, created by the firm KieranTimberlake

SOURCE: New York Times

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