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EMBASSY CASTLES SYMBOLISM
Remember how bent Potus was about the cost of the Embassy in London.
Replay
2/23/10 New U.S. Embassy in London
The team included OLIN as Landscape Architect;
Arup for Sustainability, MEP/FP and Civil Engineering;
Weidlinger Associates for Structural and Blast Engineering;
Gensler for workplace design;
Davis Langdon for Cost Consulting; and
Sako & Associates for Technical Security.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101118013452/http://blog.kierantimberlake.com/2010/02/new-us-embassy-in-london/
==May 17th, 2010
KieranTimberlake, architects for the new US Embassy in Nine Elms, have been selected to participate in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?.
A full scale detail of the practice’s Loblolly House was built specifically for the exhibition which runs from 5/14/11 - 1/9/11
Loblolly House, which was built in six weeks in 2006, pioneered a new approach to building off-site. Integrated component assemblies were fabricated off-site and assembled on-site.
Measuring 4 x 6 x 11 feet and weighing approximately 1000 lbs, the Loblolly House detail contains the aluminum frame and steel connectors that support the building, a section of the fully integrated floor and ceiling cartridges containing radiant heating, micro-ducted cooling, ventilation, and power, glass and metal floor components, and wall cartridges with integrated windows, interior birch ply finishes and exterior cedar rain screen cladding. Stephen Kieran noted that the model ‘embodies the entire logic of fabrication and assembly that gives rise to the aesthetic form and content of Loblolly House. …The whole can be read from the detail, and the detail from the whole.’
The built detail (left) and the reconstructed detail (right)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101127202450/http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/05/17/kieran-timberlake-at-the-cooper-hewitt-museum/