BRITISH EMBASSY
HEW WASHINGTON BUILDING DIGNITY AND CHARM, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 28. Work at the new British Embassy, which will be one of the finest buildings of its kind, is expected to start within the next few weeks. The- architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, who is at present in India, will arrive in the near future, when construction bids will be asked for. He will remain in ’Washington to supervise the construction in co-operation with his American associate architect. It is expected that two years will be required to finish the structure, which will stand on three and a-half acres of ground in Massachusetts. The American National Fine Arts Commission, in approving of Sir Edwin Lutyens’s design, declared that the proposed building was of a nature appropriate for the uses for which it was intended, and expressive of the dignity of the nation and imbued with charm. It will cost approximately £IIO,OOO,
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Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5
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