Fentress Architects overhauls Norwegian Embassy in Washington DC
US studio Fentress Architects used copper and mass timber to reconfigure Norway's embassy in Washington DC, which opened to the public this month. More
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Malka Architecture to top French embassy in Vienna with art nouveau-style alcoves
French studio Malka Architecture has revealed plans to renovate the interior of the French embassy in Vienna and top it with a collection of nature-informed art nouveau-style "light cannons". More
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Chicago's Swiss Consulate interior is a nod to 1960s modernism
Swiss firm HHF and Chicago-based studio Kwong Von Glinow have collaborated on the interiors of the Swiss Consulate located in Chicago's landmark John Hancock Center. More
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SHoP unveils US Embassy offices for lush site in Bangkok
New York firm SHoP Architects has designed an irregularly stacked office building for the US Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. More
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Weiss Manfredi unveils masterplan for New Delhi's modernist US Embassy
New York firm Weiss Manfredi has revealed plans to update Edward Durell Stone's modernist US embassy in New Delhi, India, as part of a major overhaul of the complex. More
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SHoP's Honduras US Embassy evokes mountainous terrain
New York firm SHoP Architects has revealed its design for the new US Embassy in Honduras, featuring a slanted and curved facade covered in a copper-hued lattice. More
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Dyed concrete walls surround Swiss embassy in Nairobi by Roeoesli Maeder Architekten
Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound. More
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Geometric bas-relief patterns decorate monolithic Egyptian Embassy in Lisbon
Portuguese studio Promontorio Architects has completed the new Embassy of Egypt in Lisbon, which features robust concrete walls covered with bas-relief patterns that recall traditional Egyptian motifs. More
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Kieran Timberlake completes £750 million "crystalline cube" for US Embassy in London
Kieran Timberlake has completed work on the US Embassy in London, a glass cube swathed in shimmering sails of plastic that is set on a plinth and surrounded by a moat-like pond on the edge of the River Thames. More
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Bates Smart unveils light-filled replacement for its Australian Embassy in Washington DC
Australian firm Bates Smart is to design a new Embassy of Australia for the US capital, replacing the building that the firm designed for the same purpose in 1964. More
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Muhammad Sahrum proposes hot-desking and games in conceptual 21st-century embassy
Graduate shows 2016: architecture graduate Muhammad Sahrum has envisioned an embassy for the 21st century, with flexible workspaces and games rooms to make diplomatic decision making more informal. More
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Denton Corker Marshall completes "expressive yet dignified" Australian Embassy in Jakarta
Denton Corker Marshall has built the new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, adding an assortment of metals mined in Australia and acoustic panels decorated with national landmarks (+ slideshow). More
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Localarchitecture transforms 1960s house into Swiss embassy for Ivory Coast
Angular concrete columns surround this extension to a 1960s villa in the Ivory Coast capital Abidjan, which Localarchitecture has reconfigured to house the Swiss embassy (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Gang chosen to design new US embassy in Brasilia
The US Department of State has announced that Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects has been selected to create a new American embassy compound in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital city designed by planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer. More
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Townsend + Associates encloses a swimming pool in a glazed box at Chinese embassy in Australia
Canberra firm Townsend + Associates Architects has created a building with translucent glass walls to contain an existing outdoor swimming pool at China's embassy in the Australian capital (+ slideshow). More
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The Martian Embassy by LAVA, Will O'Rourke and The Glue Society
This young writers' workshop in Sydney by architects LAVA is parading as an embassy for Martians on earth (+ slideshow). More
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Embassy of Belgium by Buerger Katsota Architects
Folding steel shutters and bullet-proof glass protect the new reception of the Belgian Embassy in Athens by Buerger Katsota Architects. More
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Two models for embassies (retreat I & II)by Anne Holtrop
Dutch architect Anne Holtrop has proposed two conceptual embassy buildings for the Government Building Agency in the Netherlands. More
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Embassy of the Czech Republic by Chalupa Architekti
Czech architects Chalupa Architekti have won a competition to design the new Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC, USA. More
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New London Embassy by KieranTimberlake
Philadelphia architect KieranTimberlake has won the competition to design the new US embassy in the UK. More
