Why did America need such a large embassy in Kosovo?

On 4 July, on its 243rd anniversary of Independence, the US inaugurated the new facility of the American Embassy in Kosovo.

The building was very large, even as large as the government buildings in the 1984 political novel, depicting the totalitarian order of governance.

But American embassies are also said to have symbolic functions expressing the values of this country. However, these embassies have often been threatened by terrorist attacks, with an attack in Beirut in 1983, records Periscope.

Since 1999, the State Department has adopted a standard model of embassy buildings, for which historian Jane Loeffler says there are <x0 malnomic and isolated complications. ”

In 2009, senator and former presidential candidate John Kerry was not satisfied with their design by saying “we are building some of the most ugly embassies I've seen...”

International Relations Professor Stephen Walt had written that the American <x0mambas were as a living physical symbol of a powerful empire fighting to keep the outside world below. ”

Generally, critics say that these isolated and Kurdish-military structures were the emblem of Bush's foreign policy.

However, there was a modification of embassy style, reflecting the new US Embassy in Kosovo, which tries to highlight good architecture, environmental efficiency and urbanity. The New York Times architecture critic Nicole Ouroussoff wrote an article about embassies of this style entitled “New Fund, or h, embassy” in which he argued these buildings failed to balance aesthetic quality and security.

There is no project that best reflects America's difficulties in maintaining a welcome and democratic image being under constant fear of an attack. ” /Periscope