For nearly 60 years, the American embassy loomed over Grosvenor Square, in the heart of London’s Mayfair. The blocky, modernist stone building, complete with a gilded golden eagle peering over it, was intended to impress – even intimidate.
Today, however, the notoriously dominating building, originally designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, is out to welcome people. Reconfigured by Pritzker-prize-winning British architect David Chipperfield, the former embassy is now The Chancery Rosewood hotel, taking pride of place in the historic square.
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