Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced Bates Smart - joint creators of Melbourne's Federation Square - will design the new building, set to include an expansive central glass atrium, a large open public space looking towards the White House, an exhibition gallery and function area. Artist impressions of the new Australian Embassy in Washington DC. The existing 1960s Massachusetts Avenue building at Scott Circle has been wrapped in scaffolding since 2014, with the cost of required renovations to improve amenity and occupational health and safety considered equivalent to the cost of a new building. Australian Safeguards and Non-proliferation Office (ASNO), Non-proliferation, disarmament and arms control, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Preventing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment, Australia on the United Nations Human Rights Council 2018-2020, Australia on the United Nations Security Council 2013-2014, How to get free trade agreement tariff cuts, Find export grants and financial assistance, Have your say: public consultations on FTAs, Look up FTA tariffs and services market access - DFAT FTA Portal, Case studies: how businesses are benefiting from FTAs, Australia's international investment treaties, Trade and investment data, information and publications, Trade and investment publications and articles, WTO, G20, OECD, APEC and trade with ASEAN, Who to contact with trade or investment enquiries, Australia's economic and commercial diplomacy. Ms Bishop said the new embassy design would "promote an enduring vision of a contemporary and innovative Australia, paying tribute to the Australian landscape". Embassy of Australia in Washington runs an inclusive range of consular services to local, Australian, and international citizens in United-states. has been wrapped in scaffolding since 2014, Funding for the project was announced as part of the 2015-16 federal budget. The Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the United States. Julie Bishop has announced the winning design for the new embassy. The cost will in part come from the sale of former embassy buildings in Jakarta and Bangkok. Telephone +1 202 797 3000. Casey Building The original building, designed by Bates Smart and McCutcheon, was opened in 1969 with a symmetrical facade and Australian timber interiors. Embassy of Australia Construction Update Clark Construction is constructing a new, state-of-the-art chancery for the Australian Embassy, replacing the existing building at its current site on Massachusetts Avenue in downtown Washington, DC. The firm contributed to the new Australian Embassy in Berlin as well major domestic projects including the new Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and Sydney University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences building.