KieranTimberlake Will Design New U.S. Embassy In London
By Jeffrey Hyatt
Philadelphia-based architectural firm KieranTimberlake has won the design competition for the new U.S. embassy in London. The firm’s design met the goal of creating a ‘modern, welcoming, timeless, safe and energy efficient embassy for the 21st century.’ The concept for the new London Embassy is the result of KieranTimberlake’s efforts to resolve, in architectural terms, what an embassy aspires to be and what present realities dictate it must do.
The design places the embassy building at the center of the Nine Elms site and develops the surrounding area into an urban park. The new embassy, with its gardens, will establish a framework for the urbanization of the Nine Elms redevelopment zone; seen from the north along the Thames embankment and Nine Elms Lane, the Embassy Park contains a pond with walks, places to sit and landscape along its edges, all open to the citizens of London. The anticipated groundbreaking will be in 2013 with a goal to complete the construction in 2017. [via styleture]
