London 🇬🇧 walk in Spring 2022 around the U S Embassy Gardens, and London’s fully transparent Sky Pool in Nine Elms.

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Public Realm and Landscape

The Embassy site is a working landscape that incorporates a range of sustainable technologies, including a pond that is integral to the site’s stormwater management. Oak trees provide shade along the campus perimeter and linear park. Trees throughout the landscape are native to floodplain and riverbank habitats and are especially well suited to the site’s location alongside the River Thames.

The remainder of the Embassy’s plant palette is inspired by the shared history of the United States and the United Kingdom. Planted with tall grasses and wildflowers, the landscape is reminiscent of both the expansive, rolling American prairies and the site’s early history as a River Thames wetland.

Building

The Embassy building, designed by Philadelphia-based architecture firm KieranTimberlake, is a translucent crystalline cube that gives form to core democratic values of transparency, openness, and equality. Its unique façade affords generous natural light throughout the interior and takes advantage of the site’s striking views.

The high-performance façade uses laminated glazing with an outer envelope of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene. The envelope prevents excessive solar gain and mitigates glare while uniformly distributing daylight throughout the building. This reduces the energy required to cool and light the building.

Each of the interior gardens is inspired by a different region of the United States, including the Canyonlands, the Gulf Coast, the Midwest, the Potomac River Valley, the Pacific Forest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The garden plantings not only represent the diversity of the Unite States’ landscape, they were also selected for their capacity to thrive in specific garden orientations.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a hallmark of the Embassy. With environmental initiatives including brownfield redevelopment, natural habitat creation, healthy and responsibly sourced building materials, and energy efficient equipment, the project received LEED Gold and BREAM Outstanding ratings.

Facts & Figures

Size: 518,050 square feet (48,128 square meters)
Height: 12 stories, 65 meters tall
Cost: $1 billion – funded entirely from proceeds of sale from other U.S. government property in London.
Groundbreaking: November 2013
Opening: January 2018
Commissioned art: the collection features works by contemporary artists from the U.S. and UK.
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