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United States Embassy Beijing
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Beijing, China
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United States Embassy Beijing
Beijing, China
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
The site design for the 40,000-square-meter site marries Eastern and Western garden elements in a fashion suitable for a US governmental institution abroad. Eastern elements include wooden bridges, a traditional lotus pond, various antique Chinese pavements, plantings of Chinese weeping willows, and clusters of traditional water-formed stones. Western elements include a raised grass circle with a cluster of low trees and the embassy flagpole, a fountain of oxygen jets, rows of American elms, and circular beds of American roses. The compound—which holds a cafeteria, gym, various recreation and seating areas, and groves of bamboo, paperbark maple, and lacebark pines—is surrounded by a continuous stone and concrete wall. Outside the wall is smooth; inside it is planted with ivy. Directly behind the wall, a pool surrounds the embassy buildings, acting as a moat.
CLIENT
United States Department of State
ARCHITECT
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
SIZE
10 acres
AWARDS
2013 Greening Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) Award, U.S. Department of State
2010 Good Design Is Good Business China Awards: Best Public Project
2009 AIA Citation Award
http://www.pwpla.com/projects/american-embassy-beijing
CLIENT
United States Department of State
ARCHITECT
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
SIZE
10 acres
AWARDS
2013 Greening Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) Award, U.S. Department of State
2010 Good Design Is Good Business China Awards: Best Public Project
2009 AIA Citation Award
http://www.pwpla.com/projects/american-embassy-beijing
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