Monday

embassy as modern fortress

image: Kieran Timberlake illustration in Wired
Kieran Timberlake´s winning design for the new US embassy in London features a number of security measures of 11th century fortresses.
Wired magazine interviews an expert in medieval military history that analyzes the parallels of the modern design´s defenses to 1- keep, 2- motte, 3- bailey and 4- moat.