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UNITED STATES EMBASSY
M. BREUER, 1957-1959, Lange Voorhout 102, Den Haag
Amerikaanse Ambassade / United States Embassy ( M. Breuer )
© 1987 Rook & Nagelkerke

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Marcel Breuer

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Peter Morton

BUILDING TYPE:
Government buildings

This embassy building consists of two wings, a long one for offices and a short wing for the United States Information Service, the two linked by a glazed volume. At the rear is a freestanding auditorium, its facades clad with rectangular and trapezium-shaped shell-limestone panels; the windows also have this shape. Its outward appearance provoked storms of protest from the townspeople. On firmer ground, though, is criticism levelled at its spatially uninteresting, anonymous, cramped interior.