News from New York Review of Books - 03/08/2010
The New Tower of London
Martin Filler The winning design for the US Embassy in London, by KieranTimberlake (KieranTimberlake Architects) One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant to present America’s best architectural face abroad. The latest evidence of this effort’s often ...
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News from Daily Pennsylvanian - 03/03/2010
Ash Wednesday | Keeping design local
Ashley Takacs In the spirit of the Olympics, I present a tale of nationalism, competition and the triumph of an underdog. This story’s protagonist, however, is not a ragtag hockey team or a group of Jamaican bobsledders. My story centers on the Philadelphia design firm Kieran Timberlake that recently beat out three of the world’s most prominent architects in a juried competition for the new U.S ...
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 03/01/2010
US Announces Winner of London Embassy Design Comp
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
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News from Londonist - 02/25/2010
US Embassy Exhibition @ New London Architecture
Resistance is futile. After hearing that architectural models of the Borg cube future US Embassy and the runner-up designs are on show at NLA, we simply had to pop by. Seeing the four options side-by-side, we have to admit that the winning KieranTimberlake cube is pretty powerful (although it's best side is perhaps not the one pictured). The view is reinforced when you inspect the high ...
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News from Art Daily - 02/24/2010
United States Announces Winner of New London Embassy Design Competition
View from Consular Plaza. Photo: © KieranTimberlake/studio amd. LONDON.- U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy .
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News from Independent - 02/24/2010
Hit And Run: Mad to let her go
Can it be true? Can Joan Holloway, office manager at Sterling Cooper, the fictional ad agency in Mad Men, really be leaving the company to be a housewife ministering exclusively to her vile husband, Greg? This is terrible news. Fans of the show have got used to walking through the open-plan offices of Sterling Cooper, sitting in meetings and chatting by the water cooler, and it was always a ...
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 02/24/2010
The British Hate Our New London-Embassy Design
By contrast, they thought that a competing design, by Thom Mayne/Morphosis, was "touched by genius." Yesterday, news broke that workaday Philadelphia architects KieranTimberlake had beat out a star-studded line-up to design the new U.S. Embassy in London. Just one wrinkle: The two British jurors who sat on the committee that selected the design reportedly hate it. The two happen to be some of ...
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News from Architect Magazine - 02/24/2010
London Calling: KieranTimberlake Wins U.S. Embassy Competition
The Philadelphia firm of KieranTimberlake has been chosen by the State Department to design the new U.S. embassy in London. KieranTimberlake won the project over Morphosis, Richard Meier & Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed.
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News from Evening Standard - 02/24/2010
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Architects love a good row. But it is unlikely that the new US embassy in Nine Elms will be reshaped by the views of Richard Rogers - or even the less eminent critics who have snootily dismissed the frosted cube perched in a saucer of water.
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News from Daily Mail: World News - 02/24/2010
Revealed: The new £650m high-security US London embassy... complete with moat
American architect firm Kieran Timberlake was selected to design the carbon-neutral structure in Wandsworth, south London.
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News from Bloomberg - 02/24/2010
A $500 Million Eco-Cube Will House U.S. London Embassy in 2017
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Having outgrown its 1960 embassy, a Kennedy-era modernist design by Eero Saarinen, the U.S. State Department has decided that London is too important to build one of its conventional insults to local sensibilities.
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News from Washington Post - 02/24/2010
KieranTimberlake chosen to build 'modern, open' U.S. Embassy in London
The State Department has announced that a Philadelphia-based architecture firm has won the closely watched competition to design the new U.S. Embassy in London. KieranTimberlake, which also designed an innovative and environmentally sustainable structure for Washington's Sidwell Friends School, beat...
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News from Bloomberg - 02/23/2010
A $500 Million Eco-Cube Will House U.S. London Embassy in 2017
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Having outgrown its 1960 embassy, a Kennedy-era modernist design by Eero Saarinen, the U.S. State Department has decided that London is too important to build one of its conventional insults to local sensibilities.
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News from Scoop.co.nz - 02/23/2010
US Announces Winner of New London Embassy Design
U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy.
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News from Independent - 02/23/2010
For its new English home, America builds a castle
With its moat, car bomb-proof stand-off zone and clear view of any approaching terrorists, it could be 21st-century version of a castle.
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News from The Philadelphia Inquirer - 02/23/2010
Phila. firm will design U.S. Embassy in London
In the hope of ending its reputation for Fortress America-style embassies, the State Department yesterday selected a Philadelphia architecture firm known for its thoughtful and environmentally rigorous work to design a new, more welcoming U.S. Embassy in London.
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News from Fast Company Magazine - 02/23/2010
KieranTimberlake Wins Commission for the New American Embassy in London
After almost 200 years at the same location in the posh Mayfair neighborhood of London, American diplomats will be moving across the Thames to a new building in 2017. And today, Philadelphia-based firm KieranTimberlake took home a hefty commission as its design was selected for the new U.S. Embassy. If you think it looks like a castle, you're right: The $1 billion EFTE-covered cube even has a ...
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News from Channel 4 - 02/23/2010
Design picked for new US 'fortress embassy'
Philadelphia-based architect Kieran Timberlake has won the battle to design the new US embassy in London - the largest American building in western Europe.
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News from Channel 4 - 02/23/2010
Design picked for US 'fortress embassy'
Philadelphia-based architect Kieran Timberlake has won the battle to design the new US embassy in London - the largest American building in western Europe.
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News from U.S. Department of State - 02/23/2010
Press Releases: United States Announces Winner of New London Embassy Design Competition
United States Announces Winner of New London Embassy Design Competition Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC February 23, 2010 U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy ...
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