UK firms face supporting role only on US embassy

Finnish architect Eero Saarinen’s American embassy at Grosvenor Square will close

British firms are hoping to win work as executive architects on the proposed £275 million US embassy at Battersea, south-west London, after the country’s State Department announced an all-American shortlist for the competition

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