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London's new US embassy: two views

[By Lis Watkins and James Hobbs in London] By chance, Lis and James both drew London’s new US embassy last week: here are their different views of a rapidly changing area of the city. 

James: I worked in an office close to Nine Elms for several years, and have seen and drawn the area as it has been gradually transformed from its former industrial state. The new US embassy, designed by Kieran Timberlake, is hemmed in by a ring of noisy building sites, so it doesn’t yet seem like the attractive location the developers’ images suggest it will one day become. Is it “off location”, as President Trump tweeted? Now it may seem so, but new tube stations, a pedestrian/cycle river crossing and the traditional (unaffordable) housing will make it seem a different place, just as the King’s Cross area on the other side of town is in the process of being utterly transformed. The new embassy is hardly remote: it is within sight of the Houses of Parliament and as close to it as the old US Embassy in staid Mayfair. The Dutch embassy is moving to Nine Elms, and there are rumours the Chinese one may come too.

My drawing of the embassy (below) includes a glimpse of the Tower, a 50-storey apartment block next to the river. It has no affordable housing, and has remained, since completion in 2013, largely unoccupied.

Lis: Surrounded by busy roads and new building developments, the newly opened embassy looks essentially like a big cube, with three sides adorned by a decorative structure of metal rods, supporting large transparent film shapes. Its location at Nine Elms is close to the Thames, between the MI6 building at Vauxhall and Battersea Power Station, which is also a hive of major development at the moment.

It was a cold Friday afternoon when I was there (top image and above) and most of the people walking past as I drew looked like they were working on one building site or another. There don’t appear to be an awful lot of shops, just a small Tesco Express supermarket and a couple of restaurants hiding underneath one of the tall blocks nearby, so it will be interesting to see if the area, which the developers call 'London’s Diplomatic Precinct', can soften a little with the addition of more greenery. According to the architects who built the embassy, eventually there will be a 'pedestrian greenway' extending all the way from Vauxhall station to Battersea, which will really open the area up to visitors.

Lis Watkins and James Hobbs both draw with Urban Sketchers London.

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