-ALTHOUGH WE DIDN'T GET TO GO INSIDE, THE OUTSIDE FACADE DID ENOUGH FOR ME. I WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE ANGLED FACADE.
NORDIC EMBASSIES
- THIS EMBASSIES COMPLEX IS MADE UP OF FIVE COUNTRIES INCLUDING NORWAY AND FINWAY. THE SITE PLAN OF THIS COMPLEX WAS IN THE SHAPE A HAND AND EACH FINGER WOULD BE WHERE A COUNTRIES EMBASSY WOULD BE LOCATED. THE DESIGN EVEN WENT FAR ENOUGH TO PLACE REFLECTING POOLS IN BETWEEN THE "FINGERS OR COUNTRIES" TO ACT LIKE THE ACTUAL OCEANS THAT SEPARATES THESE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. WHAT CAUGHT MY EYE WAS THE MANY DIFFERENT SKIN SYSTEMS THAT EACH BUILDING HAD, SUCH AS GREEN METAL LOUVERS OR OVER LAYERING BLACK GLASS.
COME TO FIND OUT THAT ALL THE LOVERS ARE NOT ABLE TO MOVE, SOME ARE STATIONARY IN DIFFERENT ANGLES DEPENDING ON HOW THEY WANTED TO BRING IN NATURAL LIGHT INTO A SPACE. 
NORWAY EMBASSY. FOR THOSE BACK AT LOUSIANA TECH, YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THIS BUILDING. THIS WAS DESIGNED BY THE FIRM SNOHETTA , WHO LECTURED SOMETIME THIS PAST SCHOOL YEAR. MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY RECOGNIZE THE MASSIVE STONE THAT WAS BROUGHT IN FROM NORWAY AND USED AS PART OF THE FACADE OF THE EMBASSY.
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