The new US embassy is the centerpiece of one of America's long-standing and most valued relationships. The architecture, landscape, and urban design create a strong sense of welcome for the community while meeting specific functional requirements for security, diplomatic work, and environmental sustainability.

Equally important was reimagining the staff workplace design and how people collaborate, convene, and focus. The design sets a new paradigm by representing the ideals of the American government—prioritizing transparency, openness, and equality by drawing on the best of American architecture, engineering, technology, art, and culture.

The design achieves the highest levels of sustainable accreditation, including LEED Platinum and BREEAM Outstanding. The signature form and expression is its high-performance façade, made of laminated glazing and an outer envelope of ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE), a transparent film shaped to minimize solar gain and glare, affording generous natural light throughout the interior and access to the site's striking views. The tonality of the envelope shifts with the weather and time of day. The Embassy's design represents a holistic fusion of urbanism, building, and landscape. It is both evocative and performative, helping to define a new environment for diplomacy while mapping a passage toward a new diplomacy of the environment.

(Project completed while at KieranTimberlake)