Architectural Record — "Designing Diplomacy: Top Firms Selected for New U.S. Embassies"
The State Department has selected Studio Gang to design a new U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, over finalists Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Morphosis, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Rafael Viñoly Architects, and Steven Holl Architects.
“The Brasilia embassy will replace the 1970s U.S. embassy complex, designed by the firm Henningson, Durham, and Richardson in a clean Corbusian style appropriate to the modernist city. The 12-acre site was landscaped by Roberto Burle Marx, the seminal Brazilian designer (also the subject of a show at the Jewish Museum in New York beginning May 6).”
