US London embassy trades Mayfair mansion for futuristic cube in Battersea

Published: 6:40AM GMT twenty-four February 2010

The new U.S. embassy in London

American designer organisation Kieran Timberlake was comparison to pattern the carbon-neutral glass-sided make up in Wandsworth, south London.

The US State Department concluded to sell the stream base, in Grosvenor Square, London, after it began display ""signs of wear and tear"".

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Louis Susman, US envoy to the UK, said: ""We will reinstate the stream embassy, that has turn overcrowded, does not encounter complicated bureau needs and compulsory security standards - and, after 50 years, is display signs of wear and tear.

""This bid has special stress in that we are formulating a new home and focal point for one of the majority loving and shared relationships.""

The new 12-storey building, that will be means to residence 1,000 staff, covers 45,000 block metres.

It is set between landscaping together with a pond, that acts as a healthy security measure, the pattern group said.

James Timberlake, of Kieran Timberlake, said: ""It meets and exceeds all the security requirements.

""We are utilizing elements of landscaping that have been around for centuries and centuries.

""But it"s not a fortress. We are means to make use of the landscape as a security device. There"s no wall and no fences.""

Building work is due to proceed in 2013 and be finished in 2017.

Adam Namm, behaving executive of the US government"s abroad building a whole operations, pronounced the plan would be built by a US building a whole firm.

But he pronounced it was expected that work would be sub-contracted to British companies.

He pronounced the bill for the plan was between the majority costly taken on to set up a new embassy, to one side new developments in Baghdad and Islamabad.

Speaking at the phenomenon of the new pattern in executive London, he pronounced US officials did not design to compensate VAT on the scheme.

"We feel we should not be theme to VAT," he said. "We"ve done this perspective well known to Her Majesty"s Government.

"I"m not concerned in all those discussions, as the bricks and trebuchet guy.

"There have been assorted conversations."

He pronounced American officials were available a reply on the make a difference from the UK Government.

A Treasury orator said: "We cannot criticism on the taxation affairs of people or specific organisations."