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August 6, 2019

Miller Hull embraces local context in embassy designs

  • From Africa to Central America, the Seattle firm converts its sustainability “DNA” into major contracts with the Department of State.
    • By SAM BENNETT
    Special to the Journal

    Renderings courtesy of The Miller Hull Partnership [enlarge]
    Miller Hull’s design for the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, on a sloping 9.4-acre site, includes an 18,000-square-foot, sustainably designed chancery building and Marine security guard residence.

    In his formative years as an architect in the 1970s, Dave Miller heard that famed Seattle architect Fred Bassetti was designing a U.S. embassy in Lisbon, Portugal.


     
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