The U.S. Embassy

The new 12,819 square meter U.S. Embassy Office Building incorporates offices for Embassy departments and tenant agencies of the U.S. Government currently located in a number of buildings in Ottawa. Located on the last site in the Parliament Hill zone, the building needed to respond to complex urban design contexts on each of its four sides: the Byward Market and the "Town" to the east; to the north, the Peacekeeping Monument and the turning of the Ceremonial Parade Route around the monument from Sussex Drive to MacKenzie Avenue; the Federal district or "Crown" with its dramatic and monumental buildings as well as Major's Hill Park and the dramatic views of the river and beyond to the west; and finally, the York Steps and the connection of the Town and Crown to the south.