Archives for July 14th, 2005

A design for the Slovenian embassy in Washington.

Matt Alderman, an architecture student at the University of Notre Dam, has designed a new (hypothetical) embassy
for Slovenia in the United States. The design blends Germanic,
Venetian, baroque and art nouveau styles into one extravagant whole.
Although I like extravagant buildings, such a titanic construction
would be hard (if not impossible) to justify: America accounts
for only 3% of Slovenia’s foreign trade, and American foreign-direct
investment (FDI) in Slovenia is less than 10% of the total. (source) But I think that’s beside the point…

Here is Matt’s blog post on the design, which will be published in
the 2005 Notre Dame School of Architecture student retrospective, Acroterion: Project for an Embassy for the Republic of Slovenia in Washington DC

Some more pictures:
Embassy 1 (Street and Garden facades)
Embassy 2 (Side facade)
Embassy 3 (Floor plan)