Embassy of the Czech Republic, London

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Embassy of the Czech Republic in London
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Location Holland Park, London
Address 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4QY
Ambassador Libor Secka

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in London is the diplomatic mission of the Czech Republic in the United Kingdom.[1] It is located at the junction of Kensington Palace Gardens and Bayswater Road in a building it shares with the Embassy of Slovakia.[2]

The Embassy of Czechoslovakia was originally located on Grosvenor Place, before moving to the location of the current Czech and Slovak embassies in 1970.[3] The construction of a new brutalist-style building at this site had begun in 1965 and was undertaken by Jan Bočan, Jan Šrámek and Karel Štěpánský from the atelier Beta Prague Project Institute; it received an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects for the best building in the United Kingdom created by foreign architects.[4] The building was then divided between the Czech and Slovak Republics following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.

Gallery

  • Embassy of the Czech and Slovak Republics in London 2.jpg

    The embassy

References

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