Posted on 02/23/2010 6:45:20 PM PST by kcvl
US diplomats add a moat to their expenses at $1bn London embassy
The United States has unveiled plans for its new $1 billion high-security embassy in London — the most expensive it has ever built.
The proposals were met with relief from both the present embassy’s Mayfair neighbours and the residents and developers of the Battersea wasteland where the vast crystalline cube, surrounded by a moat, will be built.
The decision to abandon the former site in Grosvenor Square by 2016 came after a prolonged battle with residents angered by the security measures demanded after the September 11 attacks. More than a hundred residents took out a full-page advertisement in The Times to oppose tighter measures that they said would leave the area more vulnerable to attack.
The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs, will be designed by Kieran Timberlake, the Philadelphia architect.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7038550.ece
The glass will make staff more efficient because it’s too bright for the “desk sleepers”.
“The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs... “
I suppose no State Department spokesman, including the Secretary, cared to elaborate on this coincidence.
Just wait till you see the bill for the dragon and the sea monsters to live in the moat.
Green footnotes, fgnotes web site gives excellent insight to architect James Timberlake’s progressive architecture and its green diversity. Obama must have embraced progressive agenda without any hesitation.
Might as well be. Haven’t you heard? Britain is a Muslim country now.
It’s the Apple iStore Embassy.
Yep. Incoming jet-liners will bounce right off it and fizzle in the moat!
This is a pond.
Just theorizing here but looks defeatable with rubber rafts and grapnels!
eliminate their excessive quarters and give them a construction trailer to operate out of!
It’s not about moslems, silly. The extra security at the Embassy in London is to protect staff from those IRA thugs.
LOL! My 9 y/o had a similar reaction, minus the cursing—
“A MOAT?!? What are we, living in medieval times or something?!?” LOLOL. :-)
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