New American embassy to have moat, trebuchet

[Ed Anger]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7038550.ece

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.

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The new embassy, on a former industrial site behind Battersea power station known for its gay clubs

that explains the moat. That'll keep Mart from tackling the Marine guards.

[grumbler]

I love the

surrounded by a moat

line in a piece that notes later that the "moat" will only

separate the building from the main road

(confirmed by their own drawing).

The Times would lose cred if it had any.  Alas, how the Mighty Have Fallen.

[Viking]

Moving from Grosvenor Sq to Battersea? WTF? The Oslo embassy is moving, no longer will it be neighbour to the royal palace and is moving out to the suburbs. Same with the London embassy.

[Zanza]

Moving from Grosvenor Sq to Battersea? WTF? The Oslo embassy is moving, no longer will it be neighbour to the royal palace and is moving out to the suburbs. Same with the London embassy.

In Berlin they moved to the very center of the city, right next to the Brandenburg Gate. Doesn't seem to fit with their security strategy really.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Moving from Grosvenor Sq to Battersea? WTF? The Oslo embassy is moving, no longer will it be neighbour to the royal palace and is moving out to the suburbs. Same with the London embassy.

In Berlin they moved to the very center of the city, right next to the Brandenburg Gate. Doesn't seem to fit with their security strategy really.

there the plan is to take out berlin in the off-chance that terrorists should strike teh embassy there with a nuke or dirty bomb. :p

[Viking]

Moving from Grosvenor Sq to Battersea? WTF? The Oslo embassy is moving, no longer will it be neighbour to the royal palace and is moving out to the suburbs. Same with the London embassy.

In Berlin they moved to the very center of the city, right next to the Brandenburg Gate. Doesn't seem to fit with their security strategy really.

meh everybody that is anybody moved into the potsdamer platz area in the old no-mans-land of the berlin wall

[Zanza]

The Pariser Platz where the American and French embassies are is much more exclusive than the pedestrian Potsdamer Platz. It's really the best adress in all of Berlin.

[Tonitrus]

You'd think with modern communications, embassies, especially those with friendly, stable countries, could just rent an office somewhere.

And the countries where an embassy would need to be a modern fortress, probably aren't worth having an embassy in anyway.

[Viking]

You'd think with modern communications, embassies, especially those with friendly, stable countries, could just rent an office somewhere.

And the countries where an embassy would need to be a modern fortress, probably aren't worth having an embassy in anyway.

Office buildings containing Danish and Norwegian embassies have been burned by raging mooselimb mobs

[The Brain]

And Swedish! Embassies that is, not mobs.

[grumbler]

You'd think with modern communications, embassies, especially those with friendly, stable countries, could just rent an office somewhere.

And the countries where an embassy would need to be a modern fortress, probably aren't worth having an embassy in anyway.

Office buildings containing Danish and Norwegian embassies have been burned by raging mooselimb mobs

Then they must not have been worth having.

[Grey Fox]

The Canadian embassy in London is the coolest embassy in the world.

#2 is the US embassy in Cuba just because it looks so out of place & is full of irony.

[grumbler]

The Canadian embassy in London is the coolest embassy in the world.

#2 is the US embassy in Cuba just because it looks so out of place & is full of irony.

You mean the Russian embassy in Havana, don't you?

[lustindarkness]

I don't see the trebuchet in the pic.

[KRonn]

A $1 billion embassy, nice, which will cost at least twice or three times that when done, of course.