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The building of the new Polish embassy is situated in the Meguro-ku district, where it is surrounded by low residential buildings. The small plot required development fitting the dimensions and shape of the building to the scale of the narrow street and leaving as much open public space in front of the building as possible. At the same time, the building needed official character, although not ostentatious. The functions of the embassy were divided into office and formal, ones that can be situated under and over the ground. The public and representational zone was situated in the oval building in front (providing space for the main entrance, reading room, the foyer, the multifunctional hall, and the meeting room). The back office was situated in the trapezoid building situated in the back of the plot. The underground part houses the automated car park and a multifunctional hall with a two-storey foyer, fronted with a bamboo garden designed in a hollow of the ground.

Showing the relationships of the architecture to Polish tradition was a major objective. Therefore, even though the design rejects any iconic reference to Polish architecture, it makes an indirect one to tradition through the use of finishing materials and also through a distant metaphor provided by the brick building situated in front of the plot. Its oval form with a large opening for the front window and entrance, together with the glass roof suspended over the entrance to resemble a suspended bridge, can be treated as the faraway reminiscence of the mediaeval barbican: a building with an invitingly opened entrance gate and a drawbridge into the city.

Symbolic for Polish architecture, the Royal Castle in Kraków was taken as the point of reference in the selection of finishing materials. Sandstone, brick, and Virginia creepers growing over it make reference to the Castle. The colours of the finish follow the natural colours of brick, light beige sandstone, oak wood on the spiral stairs in the entrance hall, raw concrete, and black shale on the floor.

Combination of contemporary, simple, and legible forms of the building with traditional materials is there to symbolise the contemporary Poland undergoing transformation, at the same time providing the Japanese guests of the embassy with the first sensory information about the Polish architectural tradition.