Kseniya SHkroban

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12MAR 2012

New U.S. Embassy in London / Morphopedia

Posted in Architecture - Office Buildings by Kseniya SHkroban

The design of the site champions openness while ensuring security.

To create a perception of accessibility and integrate with the immediate context, the site’s landscape slopes down to meet the street at ground level. To galvanize regeneration of the surrounding Nine Elms area, the scheme gifts to the city of London two significant public plazas: a public park that links to the river to the north and a Consular Plaza that connects to the proposed pedestrian corridor to the south.

From the plinth, defined by the earth-sheltered consulate’s sloping green roof, rises the honorific chancery tower.

The fluid form of the chancery tower establishes an iconic presence on the London skyline.

Orientated towards the river and the city, the tower reaches out to embrace the city of London. The tower’s wings extend in an expansive gesture towards the city, opening to reveal a translucent dome at the heart of the building.

This proposal translates the universal symbol of the dome into a contemporary expression of the Embassy’s public character and America’s civic ideals of democracy and freedom.

Enveloped in translucent glass, the central soaring domed atrium reaches the full height of the building to function as a connective space at the heart of the Embassy. In the tradition of London’s major domed public gathering spaces, the dome marks the Embassy as a civic landmark for the city, born out of the architectural heritage shared by the U.

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London

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Proposal

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