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Article: Swiss protocol: a new ambassadorial residence mixes formality with sensuality.(design and construction of a new ambassadorial building)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The architecture of diplomacy has a distinguished recent history. Signalled in 1931 by the embassy and residence designed by Edwin Lutyens that created a grand country house for the British ambassador in Washington DC, it has been advanced by inspired, albeit unbuilt, proposals by Louis Kahn and the Smithsons for new buildings in Luanda and Brasilia, and more recently completed projects like those in Dublin and Berlin designed by Allies & Morrison (AR April 1996), Snohetta (AR March 2000) and Rem Koolhaas (AR May 2004).
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Like many of these buildings the new Swiss Residence is a strange hybrid. ...