The US Embassy Complex - expected to be built in Cau Giay District, Hanoi - has a budget of 1.2 billion USD, with a construction scale of 39,000m2 on an area of 3.2 hectares. The building design is inspired by Ha Long Bay, and shows a forward-thinking, dynamic, adaptive and transparent approach to US foreign policy.
On August 25, US Vice President Kamala Harris during her visit to Vietnam attended the signing ceremony of a 99-year land lease agreement to build a new headquarters for the US Embassy in Hanoi.
The landscape design of the Embassy complex is inspired by the tradition of agricultural rice cultivation and production, such as the terrain of the Mekong Delta and the Red River Delta, and is connected to the inherent history of the area where the complex is located, where a rice field was located in the early 2000s.
EYP Architecture & Engineering Group headquartered in Washington D.C is the architectural unit, coordinating with a diverse team of experts to provide the most advanced design and technical solutions.
With a budget of 1 billion USD, the US Embassy in London, the capital of the UK, was one of the most expensive Embassy headquarters in the world at the time of construction. The US Embassy in London, opened in 2017, is architecturally a giant, 12-storey glass triangle, located in the former industrial park south of the Thames River.
The US Embassy in London was designed by Philadelphia architectural firm Kieran Timberlake with a full waterford and garden, opened to the public on January 16, 2018, welcoming about 1,000 visitors per day.
Meanwhile, Morphosis Architects - headed by Thom Mayne award-winning architect - designed a new $1 billion US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. This facility was broke ground at the end of April 2017.
The US Embassy in Oslo, Norway opened in 2017 at a cost of about $230 million. This building was also designed by EYP Architecture & Engineering Group - the design unit of the new US Embassy in Hanoi.
