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You say "Take enough photos and some of them will 'work'"
You are too modest, DG. That sentence should also add "and have the knack". You have it, and I know that I don't.
It's a brilliant picture.
Malcolm | 28.01.17 - 7:18 a.m. | #
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I went past the new US Embassy on the train into Waterloo yesterday. Rather like Battersea Power station the views of the Embassy will soon be restricted by the large numbers of apartment blocks being built all around both buildings. Get your pictures while you can!.
John | 28.01.17 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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Sir, what kind of camera do you use?
dg writes: That was taken with an iPhone 6.
Madison | 28.01.17 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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Funnily enough, it was hearing Bob Dylan on the radio that reminded me to check your blog today.
martin | 28.01.17 - 8:15 a.m. | #
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Surely the "optimum ratio of maximum volume within minimum perimeter" is a sphere? Or, if for some silly reason, like practicality, you want vertical sides, a cylinder.
Andrew | 28.01.17 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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"ethylene-tetrafluroethylene"? They have wrapped the building with polythene and teflon?
Andrew | 28.01.17 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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That thing just looks like a blinged up version of the Marburg Uni Library
HoosierSands | Homepage | 28.01.17 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Very nice shot, caught that façade perfectly.
It'll be interesting to see this building in context when complete as it appears to be basically a 21st Century keep w/ moat.
I also had a not-obvious-at-all comment formulating - 'Sketch of US Embassy, Paris' etc. – only to have my bubble burst by the last para so my weekend not off to the best start...
Kevin | 28.01.17 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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That Blackfriars pic you linked to is just hilarious. But also a big damn throwback because I can hardly remember the days when Blackfriars looked like that. It's stunning now but what a blast from the past that is.
EonLeader | 28.01.17 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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The fact that the view of this building will soon be obscured might be a blessing.
What’s the odds that this present administration colour it GOLD, and rebrand it the Top Trumps Cube, and it will have it’s own excusion zone for any non white people.
Michael | 28.01.17 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Wonder what else is in your CIA file?
Antipodean | 28.01.17 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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What I love is looking at the photo on flickr for half a minute or so, then refreshing the screen and finding the total number of viewers has gone up again...
popartist | 28.01.17 - 10:33 a.m. | #
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"...my most-favourited Flickr photo ever".
That'll be the Russians, Chinese and North Koreans then...
Spooky!
Ironic Steve | 28.01.17 - 10:59 a.m. | #
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Andrew: forget the sphere, that would be maximum volume in minimum surface area. For perimeter (taking that as measured in any horizontal plane) you want the cylinder - quite apart from practicalities.
But the phrase is a piece of post-hoc architectural gobbledegook anyway. Anyone with brains would design the building to fit within the given plot, and if that is near-square, then a square prism might be good. If the best height turns out to make it cubic, then that's fine, but it's hardly a given.
Malcolm | 28.01.17 - 11:26 a.m. | #
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So the photocells have 'a significant output of over 345,000 kWh of energy' ?
That's just another Alternative Fact: designate a sufficiently long life to the building and its systems, then claim any figure you like.
Not quite so impressive if you admit that the power output only equals half a dozen electric fires...
Gerry | 28.01.17 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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Interesting to read in the Embassy's information on the building that they will have a self sustaining water system, and will get their potable water from a deep well aquifer. I wonder if they will still pay a water bill to the Thames water company.
John | 28.01.17 - 12:09 p.m. | #
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Potable water from a well - wouldn't want polonium in their cups of tea, would they?
Gordon | 28.01.17 - 1:53 p.m. | #
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Let's hope they don't frack anywhere near it then!
Cornish Cockney | 28.01.17 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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@gerry
I think it must be rather more than half a dozen electric fires. 345,000kWh, even over a year, requires an average power of 40kW - or about a dozen 3-bar electric fires. In practice, the installed capacity would have to be much greater than that as photovoltaic cells don't work at night
So I don't know what they mean. I would be impressed if it was 345,000kW. Battersea Power Station in its prime was only rated at 503,000kW
timbo | 28.01.17 - 4:13 p.m. | #
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@Malcolm
Difficult to see how this can be called a "brilliant picture." Yes, you like it which is great, but that doesn't make it brilliant.
Don't get me wrong: functionally it's fine - it shows the building and, per his description, DG did his best to eliminate unwanted elements. But some remain (crane behind the building, lorry in the foreground) and beyond this it doesn't have any great use of the characteristics associated with artistic merit for photographs (framing, placement, use of lines, viewpoint, use of colour, etc.)
Snapper | 28.01.17 - 4:31 p.m. | #
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Every time I go past on the train I think "who would want to buy a flat next to the American Embassy?"
Never mind the additional terrorist risk what about the nightmare security and access issues on days when the likes of you know who come visiting...
ap | 28.01.17 - 4:44 p.m. | #
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Can I assume that the existing US Embassy will become a hotel and/or luxury flats?
dg writes: Hotel
Gavin | 28.01.17 - 5:48 p.m. | #
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To see this exact part of Nine Elms in around 1970, search on Youtube for the film SWALK aka Melody starring Jack Wild and Mark Lester. The final scene where the kids battle the teachers takes place on waste ground now the site of the US Embassy, and also under the railway arches and the old Meux brewery and cold stores can still be seen. A great London film.
Jeremy | 28.01.17 - 9:21 p.m. | #
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Wonder if they will pay their outstanding Congestion Charge bill before moving from Grosvenor Square out of the zone to Nine Elms
Jeremy | 28.01.17 - 9:26 p.m. | #
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Woah - that looks much more more striking than last time I wandered past. I guess the blue skies show it at its best. But I do rather like it. It's the kind of building that'll win all kinds of architectural prizes but still find itself in the shortlist for the Carbuncle Cup.
M@ | 28.01.17 - 9:56 p.m. | #
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I've been a Flickr user for quite a while. One thing that doesn't appear to have changed much about 'Explore' is the randomness of the selection process.
A couple of mine were "chosen" last month, after a long period of nothing. One was of a tram and the other of a cat
RogerW | 29.01.17 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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" location was announced ... under President Bush, the design was fixed ... under President Obama, and completion ... under President Trump. "
Mere transient trifles, these leaders of the former colonies. Whoever becomes chief occupant of this building will be appointed to the Court of St James's, just like every one of his / her predecessors.
Notts Observer | 01.02.17 - 5:47 a.m. | #
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