UK - London Flickr Photowalk 11 - Nine Elms - American Embassy abstract_5002268
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I had thought that including the American Embassy on our London Flickr Group Photowalk might prove too much for the security and armed police that guard it but our visit passed off without incident.
Click here for more from this and other LFG Photowalks : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72177720301569918
From Wikipedia : "On 23 February 2010, the U.S. government announced that a team led by the firm of KieranTimberlake had won the competition to design the new embassy building and surrounding green spaces. The winning design resembles a crystalline cube, with a semi-circular pond on one side (called a "moat" by The Times) and surrounded by extensive public green spaces and the Embassy Gardens housing development.
Ground was broken on 13 November 2013, and the building opened to the public on 13 December 2017. US President Donald Trump had been expected to visit in February 2018 to undertake the official opening of the new embassy, but in January 2018 announced he would not make the trip. Trump publicly criticized the cost of the new embassy and its location, as well as the apparent price received for the sale of the lease of the building in Grosvenor Square, blaming the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, for making what he referred to as a "bad deal". However, the decision to move the embassy was made before the Obama administration.
On 7 June 2020, thousands of protesters marched on the embassy as part of a worldwide anti-racism demonstration following the Killing of George Floyd."
© D.Godliman
UK - London Flickr Photowalk 11 - Nine Elms - American Embassy abstract_5002268
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
I had thought that including the American Embassy on our London Flickr Group Photowalk might prove too much for the security and armed police that guard it but our visit passed off without incident.
Click here for more from this and other LFG Photowalks : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72177720301569918
From Wikipedia : "On 23 February 2010, the U.S. government announced that a team led by the firm of KieranTimberlake had won the competition to design the new embassy building and surrounding green spaces. The winning design resembles a crystalline cube, with a semi-circular pond on one side (called a "moat" by The Times) and surrounded by extensive public green spaces and the Embassy Gardens housing development.
Ground was broken on 13 November 2013, and the building opened to the public on 13 December 2017. US President Donald Trump had been expected to visit in February 2018 to undertake the official opening of the new embassy, but in January 2018 announced he would not make the trip. Trump publicly criticized the cost of the new embassy and its location, as well as the apparent price received for the sale of the lease of the building in Grosvenor Square, blaming the administration of his predecessor, Barack Obama, for making what he referred to as a "bad deal". However, the decision to move the embassy was made before the Obama administration.
On 7 June 2020, thousands of protesters marched on the embassy as part of a worldwide anti-racism demonstration following the Killing of George Floyd."
© D.Godliman