This is an artist's rendering of the design for the new U.S. Embassy in London. The $1 billion facility will be built on a former industrial site and is to be completed by 2017.
The U.S. has gone modern and medieval at the same time with its design for a new $1 billion embassy in London. Its new home, which will look like a glass cube sitting on stilts, will include a semicircular moat and bomb-resistant glazing, all in the name of security.
"It meets and exceeds all the security requirements," said U.S. architect James Timberlake, whose Philadelphia-based firm, KieranTimberlake, won the contract to design the building. "We are using elements of landscaping that have been around for centuries and centuries.
"But it's not a fortress," he added. "We are able to use the landscape as a security device. There's no wall and no fences."
There is a lake 100 feet wide and a rolling earth bank that will separate the building from the main road and protect it from would-be bombers. The building will be able to house 1,000 people.
The new embassy is designed to be almost self-sufficient in energy, thanks in part to puffy-looking plastic panels attached to the facade. They will hold photovoltaic cells that can convert sunlight into energy and will also act as sunscreens to prevent overheating. {more}
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