{"id":365893,"date":"2010-02-26T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5480848"},"modified":"2010-02-26T04:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T09:40:53","slug":"londons-carbon-neutral-us-embassy-looks-like-apples-fifth-ave-manhattan-store-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365893","title":{"rendered":"London’s Carbon Neutral US Embassy Looks Like Apple’s Fifth Ave Manhattan Store [Architecture]"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you visit the US embassy<\/a> in London now, it’s a pit of concrete, barbed wire, bollards and soldiers with machine guns. You feel like a criminal just walking past it. This carbon neutral<\/a> redesign is radical in comparison.<\/p>\n

It’s been described as encompassing the United States’ “core beliefs of our democracy – transparency, openness and equality.” It’ll cost at least $1 billion to construct, and should be opening its doors in 2017. The current building was constructed in the 1950s, but didn’t open until 1960—and certainly can’t boast anything like a moat, that’s seen in the plans for the new building.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by an “Embassy Park,” with moat, the glass cube building will also look like a certain Apple building in Manhattan<\/a>, don’t you think? It’ll be covered in solar panels, and lined with energy absorbing material. Because you know London is the sunniest place on earth, obviously. [KieranTimberlake<\/a> via Construction Europe<\/a> via The Reg<\/a>]<\/p>\n