{"id":714,"date":"2010-03-14T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T05:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=714"},"modified":"2010-03-24T01:29:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T05:29:52","slug":"new-unbunkered-american-embassy-will-rise-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"New, Unbunkered American Embassy Will Rise in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/embassy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"embassy\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/embassy_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"embassy\" width=\"185\" height=\"124\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> Philadelphia-based architects <a href=\"http:\/\/kierantimberlake.com\/home\/index.html\">Kieran Timberlake<\/a> have won the competition to build a new US Embassy in London, with a design that concentrates on environmental issues, Louis Susman, US ambassador to London, announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victorious design, to be built in Nine Elms on the southern bank of the Thames, combines energy efficiency with improvements to the post-industrial landscape of one of London\u2019s last big undeveloped city-centre sites.<\/p>\n<p>It consists of a glass cube sheathed in a stretched, sculptural membrane embedded with gossamer-fine photovoltaic cells. This crystalline second skin both shades the interior from the sun and converts the sun\u2019s rays into power in one of the multiple measures to make this an exemplary green building.<\/p>\n<p>The glazed box sits atop a colonnade intended to create a feeling of civic engagement and openness which has been pointedly lacking in recent US embassies and which became one of the reasons that the state department took the decision to vacate its existing building in central London\u2019s Grosvenor Square.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the residential setting of Mayfair the concrete blockades and the huge architecture of security had seemed hugely intrusive, a reflection of national fear rather than pride. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/782cad8c-2084-11df-bf2d-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of story]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glass cube sheltered from the sun by filamentous photovoltaic shades will represent the US in London. Eschewing concrete barriers for more subtle terrorist proofing, the building will sit within a moat and a grassy knoll &#8212; and will be an exemplary green building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[332,17],"tags":[164,306,224,307,309,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}