Showing posts with label Embassies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Embassies. Show all posts
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
German Embassy
Ambassador's Residence
Completed September 1994
19,270 square feet
Construction cost approx. $18.9 million
Architect: Prof. O.M. Ungers & Partners
Landscape Architect: Dr. Bernhard Korte, Dusseldorf
Engineers: Lockwood Greene, Atlanta
Completed September 1994
19,270 square feet
Construction cost approx. $18.9 million
Architect: Prof. O.M. Ungers & Partners
Landscape Architect: Dr. Bernhard Korte, Dusseldorf
Engineers: Lockwood Greene, Atlanta
On the south side of the residence is a landscaped park which includes a rose garden, winding footpaths, a pond, and pavilion.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Belgian Embassy: Ambassador's Residence
The residence has 3 stories, 44 rooms, and a free-standing, 2-story, 8 car garage. African American, Julian Abele (1881-1950) was the architect for “Marly,” completed in 1931, and commissioned by Anna Thomson Dodge, the heiress of the Dodge Brothers Motor Company family fortune, as a wedding gift to daughter Delphine and son-in-law Raymond Baker. Marly was purchased for the residence of the Embassy of Belgium in 1945.
Abele spent the majority of his career as chief designer for architect Horace Trumbauer, whose Philadelphia firm specialized in elegant houses for America's elite. The firm often designed in 18th-century French academic style.
The residence is relatively private and easy to miss. Though it does catch your eye when you do spot it. The most you can hope to see from the road is similar to the third photo.
Abele spent the majority of his career as chief designer for architect Horace Trumbauer, whose Philadelphia firm specialized in elegant houses for America's elite. The firm often designed in 18th-century French academic style.
The residence is relatively private and easy to miss. Though it does catch your eye when you do spot it. The most you can hope to see from the road is similar to the third photo.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Belarus Embassy
On May 1st, 2008 the U.S. was ready tell the Belarus governement to close their D.C. embassy and consulates in New York, but at the last minute backed down as talks began. The planned request was in retaliation to the Belarus' expulsion of most of the U.S. Embassy staff in Minsk.
On May 5th Belarus accused the U.S. of recruiting citizens into a spy ring with the goal of undermining the ex-Soviet republic. No new news has been reported on the wire since.
www.belarusembassy.org
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Embassy of Armenia
Designed by architect George Oakley Totten and built in 1909 as a residence for the Congressman and then Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock from Nebraska. The Armenian Embassy moved into the building in 1996.
Armenian Church Memorial
Armenian Church Memorial
Second Location Alongside Rock Creek Park.
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