{"id":358372,"date":"2010-02-24T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.52995"},"modified":"2010-02-25T01:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T06:00:53","slug":"the-new-environment-friendly-design-for-the-us-embassy-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358372","title":{"rendered":"The new environment friendly design for the US Embassy in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0210\/24\/us-embassy-london.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"us-embassy-london.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/entry_images\/0210\/24\/us-embassy-london-thumb-450x303.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe US Embassy in London will be one of the greenest and most environment friendly buildings around. Thanks to Philadelphia-based architects Kieran Timberlake who won the competition to design build a new US Embassy in London, the building will be constructed near Nine Elms on the southern bank of the Thames and will use a whole load of energy saving and efficient concepts. The building will use a glass cube sheathed in a stretched, sculptural membrane embedded with gossamer-fine photovoltaic cells. This will shade the interior and also help grab energy from the sun. The building is protected by a semi-circular pool on the river facing side with a road passing between the embassy and the river Thames. <\/p>\n<p>The building is also elevated atop a mound to prevent terror attacks. The building will cost about $500m (\u20ac369m, \u00a3324m) which will be financed by he sale of the Eero Saarinen-designed 1960 Grosvenor Square building.<\/p>\n<p>An icon of the strength of the US-UK relationship, this building will spread its glory to its surroundings too when built.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/782cad8c-2084-11df-bf2d-00144feab49a.html\">FT<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in London will be one of the greenest and most environment friendly buildings around. Thanks to Philadelphia-based architects Kieran Timberlake who won the competition to design build a new US Embassy in London, the building will be constructed near Nine Elms on the southern bank of the Thames and will use a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}