The existing embassy, built in 1971, is located in Marylebone and is partially listed. After more than 50 years of continuous operation and incremental adaptation, the building is beginning to display significant functional, energy efficiency and organisational shortcomings and must be renovated resp. redeveloped. An area schedule adapted to current needs creates space for the Chancellery, Switzerland Tourism, and the semi-public interior spaces that allow for multiple uses, a pool of representative rooms, as well as service flats.
The project should, on the one hand, deal with the cultural, economic, and political context of the guest country at the highest architectural level and, on the other, self-confidently, precisely, and elegantly articulate Swiss values such as a cosmopolitan and modern approach.
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