the brandenburg gate is a magnet for tourists right next door the u.s. embassy. is security and public space still co-exist. but in the future will the security situation call for other solutions will potentially endangered buildings have to be conceived differently and outside the city center like the new u.s. embassy in london an entirely new embassy is going to be built at the cost of about wall billion dollars. the building looks almost exactly like a twenty first century castle it reminds me very very much of the norman keep as a sort of structure it has a thirty meter moat filled with water believe it'll not which is both a landscape feature and aesthetic feature and the security feature on it involves a whole lot of blast proofing architecture is a whole load of intense security devices and systems many of which are confidential as you'd expect built into this glass and steel almost medieval castle like structure. all we witnessing are a nascence of medieval architecture with electronic city wools and bomb proof modes . fortresses have always had to deal f