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Weiss/Manfredi to design U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with exploded façade elements

India Architecture News - Feb 28, 2019 - 06:27   14130 views

Weiss/Manfredi to design U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with exploded façade elements

New York-based multidisciplinary design practice Weiss/Manfredi unveiled design for the transformation of the iconic U.S. embassy campus in New Delhi, India. 

The first phase of this long-term master plan includes a new office building, a support annex, and a connected landscape that will provide a secure campus for America’s mission in India. 

Weiss/Manfredi to design U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with exploded façade elements

The design enables the restoration of Edward Durell Stone’s early modernist Chancery Building and recasts the 28-acre embassy compound into a multi-functional campus.

Weiss/Manfredi's design scheme includes a tree-lined promenade connecting all new and existing buildings on the campus, connects functional zones, and introduces reciprocal relationships between buildings and gardens. 

Weiss/Manfredi to design U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with exploded façade elements

The studio is inspired by India’s enduring tradition of weaving together architecture and landscape, a series of cast stone screens, canopies, reflecting pools and garden walls introduce a resilient, integrated design language that brings the campus into the twenty-first century.

Weiss/Manfredi to design U.S. Embassy in New Delhi with exploded façade elements

Nearly sixty years after the opening of the Edward Durell Stone-designed embassy, the redesign of the Embassy Campus defines a sustainable vision for the Embassy’s future that builds on the legacy of the historic campus to create a new foundation for American diplomacy in India.

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