The new Embassy building is a 3-storey structure sitting within a secure compound. The form is basically a long 3-storey block with a single storey Visa block at the front with a total area of 3,600m2. The long block has been given greater definition by breaking down the mass into two smaller blocks separated by a re-entrant. The block facing on the main highway has been canted back and made taller than the other block to increase the ‘architectural drama’. This project received an excellent BREEAM rating at detailed design stage, on a technically challenging brief, which needed to fulfill the both the functional and security requirements of the FCO.