After reviewing the portfolios of six finalist firms, the State Department has chosen Studio Gang Architects to design a new U.S. Embassy in Brasilia. The Chicago-based firm joins a number of highly regarded firms designing embassies for the department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), including KieranTimberlake, whose embassy in in London is scheduled to open early next year; Morphosis, whose embassy in Beirut is in the final phases of design; and a joint venture of Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Davis Brody Bond, who have completed their design for a a new Mexico City embassy.
The list doesn’t end there: New York architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are preparing designs for an addition to the embassy compound in New Delhi, and YGH and Allied Works Architecture have completed designs for the embassy in Maputo, Mozambique. Ennead Architects is also designing a new embassy in Ankara, Turkey; Boston-based Ann Beha Architects, a major rehabilitation of the Walter Gropius-designed embassy in Athens; and Michael Maltzan, a Marine Security Guard residential annex in Paris.
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