The Foreign & Commonwealth Office has launched a design competition to find architects for a new residence for the United Kingdom’s ambassador to China.

It said the project was an “opportunity to showcase a design that fully reflects Britain and its values” and required a “practice of the highest calibre”.

Organised by RIBA Competitions, the bid will be decided by a competitive interview process and forms part of a wider scheme of redevelopment work for the nation’s embassy in Beijing, which is one of the capital’s larger diplomatic compounds and dates from the late 1950s.

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