The winner of a competition to design the new US Embassy in London has been announced this week. Kieran Timberlake, an architecture firm from Philadelphia won the pitch to design the building facing off fierce competition from high profile names such as Morphosis Architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Richard Meier & Partners.
The competition was judged by respected figures from British and American Architecture including property developer and patron of the arts Baron Peter Palumbo and British architect Lord Richard Rogers. (more…)